TR Young The family of T. R. Young (1928-2004) is sad to inform his friends and colleagues that he passed away on Feb 15, 2004 after an extended illness.
Dad had a full and rewarding life in academic terms as well as in his personal life. He taught for 50 years and founded the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in 1971. Growing up in the industrial slums of Flint, Michigan, with eight brothers and sisters, he dropped out of high school at 16 to work at A.C. Spark Plug. Dad later went back to school and worked his way through college, earned his teaching certificate and taught at Clio High School and Holly High School. He went on to earn an MA in Sociology at University of Michigan in 1958 and his PhD. in Sociology from University of Colorado in 1967. His twenty year career at Colorado State University is only a small part of the many contributions he made at universities around the country. Dad has made many contributions to American Sociology, and now that he’s gone his work is sure to live on famously or infamously in college classrooms around the country. He has done original work in critical dramaturgy, in applications of Marxist social theory to several other branches of sociology, including chaos theory and complexity theory, central topics in sociology, among which are class dynamics, symbolic interaction, and social change and the forms of crime. Dad has also contributed to the funds of social justice of sections of the American Sociology Association as well as to the local Women’s Crisis Center. In the last few years Dad wrote a twenty-two volume set of fiction novels centering on the changing forms of love, intimacy, and family. He has written poetry on love, loss, nature, and politics. Most of his work is available at his website, www.tryoung.com. In Dad’s last twenty-four hours our family had the blessing of being gathered around his hospital bed where we could all express our love for each other and say goodbye to our father. As in most families, we’ve had our falling outs over the years but we consider ourselves blessed for the opportunity to heal relationships. We now believe he is at peace and with our mother. Our father is survived by his five children: Michael, Larry, Holly, Richard, and Heather. His beloved wife, Dorothy Jean Grace-Young (1931-1981) preceded him in death. His brothers and sisters include Wilma, Dorothy, Barbara, Timothy, Robert, Dan, and Margie. Two siblings died early, Juanita and David. - The Children of TR Young Bienvenue aux etudiants du monde!! to the RED FEATHER
INSTITUTE TR YOUNG, DIRECTOR GARTH MASSEY, Associate Director
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Archives of the Transforming Sociology Series ESSAYS on Non-Linear Social Dynamics and Qualitative Transformations in Society ESSAYS on Non-Linear Transformation on Crime Rates
The SocGrad Lectures
A Journal for and by Graduate Students in Sociology Today. Contact TR Young if you have an Article or would like to edit an Issue:
Catastrophe theory, Chaos Theory,
Semiotics, Dramaturgy, Constitutive Theory, Feminist theory and varieties of Postmodern
critique applied to Law, Justice and Criminology.
Criminology Lectures by TR Young now on-line for your students: Marxist, Feminist and Postmodern Approaches to Crime and Social Justice PROGRESSIVE
NEIGHBORHOODS: This shortened version contains Feminist, marxist and affirmative postmodern terms are defined and explained.
A set of 22 novels which begin with a fairly traditional family form then new generations of the Grayson Clan come along to embody evermore varied forms of intimacy and family-with just enough sex and violence to keep the reader engrossed. The more varied forms of intimacy may be found in Vols. 4, 17, 19, and 21. Several U.S. universities are featured in the novels: the U.Colorado, U.Michigan, UTEP, U.Vermont, and Virginia Tech. Universities in Toronto, Exeter, Brisbane and Buenos Aires also anchor the novels. |
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IN REMEMBRANCE