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Aaron Victor Cicourel, (August 29, 1928 – July 22, 2023) was an American sociologist. A professor of sociology who spent much of his career at the
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, he specialized in sociolinguistics, medical communication, decision-making, and child socialization. He was intellectually influenced greatly by
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, and
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.


Life and career

After receiving his B.A and M.A. from
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and his PhD from
Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
, Cicourel accepted posts as visiting assistant professor at
Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
, assistant professor to associate professor at the
University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Riverside, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of Cali ...
, visiting professor at the
University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821 ...
in Argentina, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and associate research sociologist in the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California at Berkeley, visiting professor at
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, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, professor in the School of Medicine and Department of Sociology at the University of California at San Diego, and research professor of cognitive science at the latter institution. Cicourel held a
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Post Doctoral Fellowship at the
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Medical Center, a
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Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at
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in England, a
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at the University of Madrid in Spain, and was a
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lecturer in Brazil and Spain. In November 2007, he was awarded Docteur Honoris Causa by Université de Fribourg in Switzerland, and in 2008 was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa
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. Cicourel was elected Fellow of the
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and of the
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. Cicourel lived in
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. Cicourel was likely the first scholar to use the full name of "
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" in an academic publication. Aaron Cicourel died on July 22, 2023, at the age of 94.Aaron Victor Cicourel
Dignity Memorial


Selected bibliography

* ''Le Raisonnement Medical''. Paris: Seuil. (Also published in Korean) * ''The Educational Decision-Makers''. NY: Bobbs-Merrill (with J.Kituse) (Also published in Japanese) * ''Method and Measurement in Sociology''. NY: Free Press, 1964. (Also published in German, Japanese and Spanish). * ''The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice''. NY: Wiley, 1968. (Reprinted in 1976 and 1994) ** French translation released in 2018, La justice des mineurs au quotidien de ses services, Editions ies, Genève (ebook available) * ''Cognitive Sociology: Language and Meaning in Social Interaction''. New York: Free Press. 1974. * ''Theory and Methods in a Study of Argentine Fertility''. NY: Wiley-Interscience, 1974. * ''Language Use and Classroom Performance''. (with others) NY: Academic Press, 1974. * Three Models of Discourse Analysis. ''Discourse Processes'' 3:101–131. * ''Interpenetration of Communicative Contexts: Examples from Medical Encounters''. Social Psychology Quarterly. * ''Formal semantics, pragmatics, and situated meaning''. In Pragmatics at Issue, Vol. 1, edited by J. Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cicourel, Aaron 1928 births 2023 deaths American sociologists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cornell University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty University of California, San Diego faculty Columbia University faculty People from Berkeley, California