Julius A. Roth (1924 – 2002) was Professor of Sociology at University of California, Davis.Obituary at University of California website. He is best known for his 1963 groundbreaking work in medical sociology, Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers,Julius A. Roth. Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963) based in part on his own experience as a tuberculosis (TB) patient.Review by Maurice L. Farber in American Sociological Review, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Oct., 1964), pp. 778-779. Excerpts from Timetables were included in the Penguin Modern Sociology Readings anthology Rules and Meanings (1973).Mary Douglas (ed.), Rules and Meanings (Penguin Books, 1973), pp. 82-86.
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.Gary Alan Fine. A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 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.
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