Julius A. Roth (1924 – 2002) was Professor of Sociology at University of California, Davis.[1] He is best known for his 1963 groundbreaking work in medical sociology, Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers,[2] based in part on his own experience as a tuberculosis (TB) patient.[3] Excerpts from Timetables were included in the Penguin Modern Sociology Readings anthology Rules and Meanings (1973).[4]

Roth is sometimes associated with the so-called "Second" Chicago School of Sociology, although his University of Chicago degrees (M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1954) were both awarded through the Committee on Human Development.[5] Roth describes how his mentors Everett Hughes and David Riesman encouraged him to keep a journal during his TB hospitalizations, which eventually led to the publication of Timetables.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Obituary Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine at University of California website.
  2. ^ Julius A. Roth. Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963)
  3. ^ Review by Maurice L. Farber in American Sociological Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Oct., 1964), pp. 778-779.
  4. ^ Mary Douglas (ed.), Rules and Meanings (Penguin Books, 1973), pp. 82-86.
  5. ^ Gary Alan Fine. A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
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