Carmi Schooler Explained

Carmi Schooler
Birth Date:1933
Birth Place:The Bronx, New York City, New York
Nationality:American
Fields:Social psychology
Sociology
Workplaces:National Institute of Mental Health
University of Maryland, College Park
Education:Hamilton College
New York University
Thesis Title:Social influence on perceptual judgments of chronic schizophrenics
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Thesis Year:1959
Doctoral Advisor:Marie Jahoda
Academic Advisors:Robert K. Merton
Known For:Personality
Structural equation modeling
Awards:Member of the Sociological Research Association
Fellow of the American Psychological Society
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Children:Jonathan Schooler
Lael Schooler

Carmi Schooler (1933 – May 11, 2018) was an American social psychologist known for his work on personality and structural equation modeling.[1]

Early life and education

Schooler was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, in 1933. He was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and later attended Hamilton College and New York University (NYU). He received his Ph.D. from NYU in 1959 under the supervision of Marie Jahoda.[2] [3] Another one of his advisors in graduate school was Robert K. Merton.

Academic career

Schooler began working at the National Institute of Mental Health's Socioenvironmental Studies Laboratory in 1959, and continued to work there until 2007. For his last twenty-two years there, he was the laboratory's chief. In 2007, he joined the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became a senior scientist in the Department of Sociology. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Society and a member of the Sociological Research Association. He was elected chair of the American Sociological Association's Social Psychology Section in 2003[4] and received their Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 2016.[3]

Personal life

Schooler married his wife, Nina, in 1956. They had two sons: Jonathan and Lael.[5] Carmi Schooler died on May 11, 2018, at the age of 84.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schooler '54 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from ASA; Reflects on Hamilton Education . 2017-03-01 . Hamilton College . en . 2018-12-18.
  2. Book: Trahair, R. C. S. . From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: A Dictionary of Eponyms with Biographies in the Social Sciences . 1994 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 9780313279614 . 341 . en.
  3. Web site: Obituaries . Lucas . Jeff . 2018-10-16 . Footnotes . en . 2018-12-18.
  4. Web site: Schooler, Carmi . University of Maryland . https://web.archive.org/web/20180429130857/https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Schooler/Carmi . 2018-04-29 . 2018-12-18.
  5. A Family Affair . Schooler . Carmi and Nina . 2007-12-01 . APS Observer . 20 . en-US . 2018-12-18.