Daniel Yankelovich

Daniel Yankelovich has been a supporter of the Division of Social Sciences for many years and currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council.  Mr. Yankelovich is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University and the Rantoul Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  He holds honorary doctorates from Washington University, George Washington University, and St. Bonaventure University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. 

Mr. Yankelovich is a director of Loral Space and Communications, Inc. and director emeritus of CBS, US West, the Meredith Corporation, Diversified Energies, and ARKLA.  He is a trustee of the Kettering Foundation, the Japan Society, and the Fund for the City of New York, and Special Advisor to the Aspen Institute and Trinity Church.  He is trustee emeritus and former Chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and trustee emeritus of Brown University.  He was a founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.  His academic affiliations include Harvard, NYU, the New School for Social Research, UC Irvine, and UCSD's Civic Collaborative.

 

The UCSD Department of Sociology is pleased to present a series of talks on Social Thought as envisioned by Daniel Yankelovich, a Division of Social Sciences benefactor and sponsor of the newly created Endowed Chair on Social Thought.

We continue the series with a talk by Bryan Turner, a Professor of Sociology at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology and Head of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University. His long list of publications includes: Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medial Sociology; Orientalism, Postmodernism and Glabalism; Max Weber: From History to Modernity; and classisal Sociology. He edited the Blackwell Companion to Social Theory and the Talcott Parsons Reader.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bryan Turner
Professor of Sociology at the Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore

"The State of Social Theory:
Classical Sociology, the Body and Rights"

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Reception immediately following

The UCSD Faculty Club

For more information on Professor Turner, see his faculty web page.

For more information on this talk or the colloquium series, please contact Beverly Bernhardt, bbernhardt@ucsd.edu, (858) 534-2779.

For directions and parking information, click here.

Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Sociology

This colloquium series is made possible by
a gift from Nora and Alan Jaffe.