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Citations
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World Ranking
2677
National Ranking
1297

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan H. Turner is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spans several main fields including Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, and Demography.

Their scholarly output includes publications in well-regarded venues including the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Theory and Society, Emotions History Culture Society, Nature Human Behaviour, and The American Sociologist.

Jonathan H. Turner's research covers a broad range of topics, among which are:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • World Systems and Global Transformations
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Economic Theory and Institutions

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology, 2020, The American Sociologist
  • Electrodynamic solution for polarized reflectivity and wide-field orientation imaging of uniaxial metals, 2021, Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • An Approach to Evolutionary Sociology and its Implications for Theorizing on Socio-Cultural Evolution, 2024, KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
  • Working whilst studying: a survey of medically-qualified dental students, 2023, British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Frequent co-authors in their work include Alexandra Maryanski, Anthony Roberts, Jane W. Davidson, David Konstan, and Daniel Dukes.

Jonathan H. Turner has contributed to book literature with publications from Edward Elgar Publishing and Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives. These include:

  • Biosocial Evolutionary Analysis (2024)
  • Inter-Societal Dynamics (2023)

In recognition of their professional contributions, Jonathan H. Turner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997.

Best Publications

  • The structure of sociological theory

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • The sociology of emotions

    Jonathan H. Turner;Jan E. Stets

  • Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach.By Margaret S. Archer. Cambridge University Press, 354 pp

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • A theory of social interaction

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology

    Stephen Park Turner;Jonathan H. Turner

  • On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of Human Affect

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • Sociological theories of human emotions

    Jonathan H. Turner;Jan E. Stets

  • Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • La teoría social, hoy

    Anthony Giddens;Jonathan H. Turner;Jesús Alborés

  • Face to Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II

    Jan E. Stets;Jonathan H. Turner

  • Handbook of the sociology of emotions

    Jan E. Stets;Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

    Joseph Lopreato;Aexandra Maryanski;Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Institutional Order: Economy, Kinship, Religion, Polity, Law, and Education in Evolutionary and Comparative Perspective

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Sociology of Emotions: Basic Theoretical Arguments

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • Social Theory Today

    Anthony Giddens;Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Emergence of Sociological Theory

    Jonathan H. Turner;Leonard Beeghley;Charles H. Powers

  • TOWARD A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF MOTIVATION

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • Handbook of Sociological Theory

    Jonathan H. Turner

  • A importância dos clássicos

    Jeffrey C. Alexandrer;Anthony Giddens;Jonathan Turner

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory.

    Marcello Truzzi;Jonathan H. Turner

  • The Sociology of Emotions: Prospects for the Sociology of Emotions

    Jonathan H. Turner;Jan E. Stets

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan E. Stets
Jan E. Stets University of California, Riverside
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Jeffrey C. Alexander Yale University
Edward J. Lawler
Edward J. Lawler Cornell University
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Randall Collins
Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen

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