Kai t erikson biography of william
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Kai T. Erikson
American sociologist
Kai Theodor Erikson (born February 12, 1931)[1] is an Austrian-born American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events.[2] He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association.[3]
Life and career
Erikson was born in Vienna, the son of Joan Erikson (née Serson), a Canadian-born artist, dancer, and writer, and Erik Erikson, a German-born famed psychologist and sociologist.[4] His maternal grandfather was an Episcopalian minister,[5] and Erikson was raised a Protestant.[6] Erikson graduated from The Putney School in Vermont, Reed College in Oregon and earned a PhD at the University of Chicago.
He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1959 where he held a joint appointment at the School of Medicine and in the Department of Sociology. There he met his future wife Joanna Slivka, who became Joanna Erikson.&