Arline kaplan biography
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Arlene Kaplan Daniels, whose colorful, witty, and generous presence enlivened the field of sociology, died in her sleep on January 29, 2012 at the age of 81. She was active in the SSSP, first as Editor of Social Problems (1975-1978) and later (1986-87) as President. She also served as Secretary of the ASA and as President of Sociologists for Women in Society. A well-published sociologist of occupations and women’s work, Arlene had a keen sense of social justice and mentored a wide circle of younger colleagues and students.
As a young girl, Arlene Kaplan moved with her family from New York City to Los Angeles, where her parents owned a small natural foods store. In 1948 she enrolled as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley; she was poor, but it cost only $25 a semester. She majored in English but turned toward sociology after taking a course with Tamotsu Shibutani. With his encouragement, she entered the Berkeley sociology graduate program in 1952 and completed her Ph.D. in 1960.
In a memorable 1994 essay, “When We Were All Boys Together: Graduate School in the Fifties and Beyond,” Arlene Daniels describes an encounter she had before one of Shibutani’s classes that crystallized her sense of a calling to the profession of sociology: “I bus
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Daniels, Arlene Kaplan, 1930-2012
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Arlene Kaplan Daniels, sociology professor, was born on December 10th 1930 in New York, New York, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rathstein) Daniels. As a child, she moved to California where her parents retained their professions as shopkeepers. Daniels attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she took a B.A. degree with honors in English (1952), an M.A. in Sociology (1954) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (1960). On June 9th, 1956, she married Richard Rene Daniels, an area hospital administrator.
From 1959 to 1961 Daniels served as an instructor in the Department of Speech at University of California. From 1966 to 1970 she held an associate professorship in sociology at San Francisco State College. In 1974 Daniels was a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Missouri (Columbia).
In 1975 Northwestern University invited Daniels to become the head of its new Program on Women and a professor in the Department of Sociology. She accepted Northwestern’s offer but chose to maintain her permanent home in California. In 1979 Daniels stepped down as the head of the Program on Women but retained her position in the Department of Sociology. She served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Research on W
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Arlene Kaplan Daniels (1930-) Papers
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