Melvin Seeman

{{Short description|American social psychologist (1918–2020)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Melvin Seeman | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|2|5}} | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|1|31|1918|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=195383069 |title=Melvin Seeman |date=12 February 2020 |website=legacy.com |publisher= |access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref> | death_place = Malibu, California | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Social psychology | workplaces = University of California, Los Angeles, Ohio State University | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = 1996 Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Melvin Seeman''' (February 5, 1918<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HwgnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT16 |title=Key Concepts in Sociology |last=Roberts |first=Ken |date=2008-09-26 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=9781137171528 |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref> – January 31, 2020) was an American social psychologist and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is known for researching social isolation.<ref name=spq/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMBDWriZDQ8C&pg=PA16 |title=Encyclopedia of Case Study Research: L - Z; Index |last1=Mills |first1=Albert J. |last2=Durepos |first2=Gabrielle |last3=Wiebe |first3=Elden |date=2010 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=9781412956703 |pages=16–7 |language=en}}</ref> Seeman turned 100 in February 2018.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZqxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Melvin+Seeman+100th&pg=PA78 How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics, pg. 78]</ref>

==Biography== Seeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1947. He subsequently taught at Ohio State for several years, and eventually became an associate professor there. He also served as the director of Ohio State's Operations Research Group from 1956 to 1958. In 1959, he joined the faculty at UCLA, where he chaired the sociology department from 1977 to 1980.<ref name=spq/> He taught at UCLA for 29 years before he retired.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/21/seniors.alcohol.disability/ |title=Seniors: Drink to your health |last=Abedin |first=Shahreen |website=CNN |publication-date=January 21, 2009}}</ref> He has been the editor-in-chief of ''Sociometry'', associate editor of the ''American Sociological Review'', and the president of the Pacific Sociological Association.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5W1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12 |title=Theories of Alienation: Critical perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences |last1=Geyer |first1=R. F. |last2=Schweitzer |first2=D. R. |date=2012-12-06 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9781468488135 |pages=xii |language=en}}</ref>

==Awards== In 1996, Seeman received the Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Social Psychology.<ref name=spq>{{cite journal |last1=Kiecolt |first1=K. Jill |title=Introduction of Melvin Seeman for the Cooley-Mead Award |journal=Social Psychology Quarterly |date=March 1997 |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |jstor=2787007}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150907204049/https://soc.ucla.edu/faculty/melvin-seeman Faculty page (Internet Archive)] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180131030244/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/080520_mef-seeman Story about Seeman] on UCLA website (Internet Archive)

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