Willie B. Lamousé-Smith
Willie B. Lamousé-Smith (until 1966 Willie Smith , * 1935 in Cape Coast , Ghana ) is a Ghanaian -American sociologist .
He first studied sociology at the University of Ghana in Accra , where he passed the B. Sc. (London) . 1962–63 he was research assistant to Norbert Elias in Accra . He was then as a research assistant to Karl Heinz Pfeffer at the Social Research Center at the University of Munster in the department " Sociology of developing countries brought" and in 1966 at the University of Münster with the dissertation industrial and operational sociological categories in African sociology Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he married the German sociologist Annette Lamousé (whose last name he also adopted) and followed Dieter Claessens as an assistant at the Free University of Berlin for a few years .
After positions at Makerere University in Kampala / Uganda and at Syracuse University in the USA, he was appointed tenured professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1975, where he retired in 2008.
His areas of work were first industrial sociology , then a broad spectrum of African studies , especially in the field of political sociology , population science and health care. He also served on the boards of the Maryland Museum of African Art and the Maryland African American Museum Corporation in 2009 .
Remarks
- ↑ She also worked at the Social Research Center. Publ. Z. B. Annette Lamousé, The role structure of the family. On some of their social conditions using the example of a survey in a western German city , Berlin [West] 1974
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| SURNAME | Lamousé-Smith, Willie B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Willie (name until 1966) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian-American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Coast , Ghana |