Edward Sagarin

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Edward Sagarin (born September 18, 1913 in Schenectady , New York , † June 10, 1986 ) was an American author and sociologist .

Life

After school and a subsequent year in France, Sagarin studied at the City College of New York . He left college because of the Great Depression that hit him. In 1934 Sagarin met Gertrude Lipshitz, whom he married in 1936 and with whom he had a son. Sagarin worked in the chemistry and perfume industry and published the book The Science and Art of Perfumery in 1945 . After the Second World War, Sagarin published other books under the pseudonym Donald Webster Cory . In 1951 the book The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach was published . The book, which was written from a homosexual, sympathetic point of view and found a wide readership, provided a comprehensive portrait of the male homosexual subculture. In 1953, Sagarin published under a pseudonym the book Twenty-One Variations on a Theme , an anthology of short stories with homosexual topics, which featured Sherwood Anderson , Paul Bowles , Christopher Isherwood , Denton Welch , Charles Jackson and Stefan Zweig .

In 1958, Sagarin began studying again and attended Brooklyn College in New York City , where he received his Bachelor's and 1961 Master's in sociology . Sagarin became a member of the Mattachine Society .

In 1963 he wrote the book The Homosexual and His Society with John LeRoy (pseudonym of Barry Sheer ) . In 1965 his candidacy for chairman of the organization Mattachine Society failed . In 1966, Sagarin began a program in sociology at New York University that earned him a Ph.D. (Dissertation: Structure and Ideology in an Association of Deviants ).

He then got a job at Baruch College at New York University as a sociologist . In the 1970s Sagarin wrote other books under his own name: including the 1973 book People in places; The sociology of the familiar , 1976 the book Norms and human behavior and 1978 the book The Sociology of sex: An introductory reader .

In 1986 Sagarin died of a heart attack .

Works (selection)

Edward Sagarin

  • The Science and Art of Perfumery , 1945, New York, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company
  • A pictorial history of the world's great trials, from Socrates to Eichmann , 1967, New York: Crown Publishers
  • Odd one in; Societies of deviants in America , Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969, ISBN 0-531-06344-5 , OCLC 34435
  • People in places; The sociology of the familiar , 1973, New York: Praeger
  • Laws and trials that created history , 1974, New York: Crown ISBN 0-517-50535-5
  • Structure and Ideology in an Association of Deviants , 1975, New York: Univ. Press
  • Norms and human behavior , 1976, New York: Praeger ISBN 0-275-52090-0
  • Sex, crime, and the law , 1977, New York: Free Press ISBN 0-02-919680-9
  • Deviance and social change , 1977, Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications ISBN 0-8039-0804-0
  • The Sociology of sex: An introductory reader , 1978, New York: Schocken Books ISBN 0-8052-3680-5
  • Taboos in criminology Beverly Hills , California: Sage Publications, 1980, ISBN 0-8039-1513-6
  • Raskolnikov and others: Literary images of crime, punishment, redemption, and atonement , 1981, New York: St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-66397-8

Pseudonym: Donald Webster Cory

  • The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach , 1951, New York: Greenberg
  • Twenty-One Variations on a Theme , 1953, New York: Greenberg
  • Homosexuality; A cross cultural approach , 1956, New York: Julian Press
  • The Homosexual and his Society: A View from Within , 1963, New York: Citadel Press
  • Violation of taboo; Incest in the great literature of the past and present , 1963, New York: Julian Press
  • The Lesbian in America , 1964, New York: Citadel Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GLBTQ: Encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan, 1997, New York: Routledge, We are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politic ( preview in Google Book Search)
  3. ↑ GLBTQ: Edward Sagarin ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ GLBTQ: Edward Sagarin ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ James T. Sears, 2006, New York: Harrington Park Press, Behind the Mask of the Mattachine , ISBN 1-56023-186-6 ( preview in Google Book Search)
personal data
SURNAME Sagarin, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1986