Lawrence K. Frank
Lawrence Kelso Frank | |
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| Born | December 6, 1890 |
| Died | September 23, 1968(aged 77) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Social scientist, gerontologist, administrator |
| Awards | Lasker Award |
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| Education | BA, LL.D. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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| Era | 1923-1968 |
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Lawrence Kelso Frank(December 6, 1890 – September 23, 1968) was an Americansocial scientist,administrator,and parent educator,[1]particularly known as vice-president of theJosiah Macy Jr. Foundationand together withFrank Fremont-Smithinitiator of theMacy conferences.[2]
Biography
[edit]Born and raised inCincinnati, OhioFrank received his Bachelor of Arts degree ineconomicsfromColumbia Universityin 1912. In 1959 he also received an honorary degree ofLL.D.degree atWayne State University.[3]At Columbia Frank met the economistWesley C. Mitchell,who guided theNational Bureau of Economic Research,and his wife Lucy Sprague Mitchell, who foundedBank Street College of Educationas the Bureau of Educational Experiments. They became friends and important mentors of Frank.[4]
Frank was director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial from 1923 to 1929. He directed the child-development program in theRockefeller Foundationfrom 1929 to 1933 and became part of its General Education Board in 1933. From 1936 to 1942 he was vice-president of theJosiah Macy Foundation,Frank was among the attendees of the first Macy meeting in 1942 with other scientists such as the anthropologistsGregory BatesonandMargaret Mead,the neurophysiologistWarren McCulloch,the physician and physiologistArturo Rosenbluethand the psychoanalystLawrence Kubie.From 1945 to 1950 he was director of the Caroline Zachry Institute of Human Development.[5]
Beside his administrative career he was visiting professor and lecturer at several institutions, member of many learned societies and organizations, and wrote a series of books of educational and social matters. He received theLasker Awardin mental health in 1947, the Parents' magazine award for an outstanding book in 1950.[3]In some of these writings, Frank suggested that the American focus onindividualismshould be re-balanced in favor of more group responsibility.[6]
His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]Frank authored numerous articles and books.[8]
- 1920.Review ofBusiness Research and Statisticsby J. George Frederick.Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association,vol. 17, no. 132 (Dec. 1920), pp. 517–19.doi:10.2307/2965256.JSTOR2965256.
- 1925."Social Problems."American Journal of Sociology,vol. 30, no. 4 (Jan. 1925).
- 1926.The Problem of Learning
- 1942.Conserving Human Resources in the Field of Early Childhood.
- 1946.Gerontology,Journal of Gerontology, Volume 1, Issue 1, Part 1, January 1946doi:10.1093/geronj/1.1_Part_1.1
- 1948.Personality and Culture, the Psychocultural Approach.Prepared for the Bureau for Intercultural Education and theAmerican Education Fellowship.
- 1948.Projective Methods.
- 1950.How to Help your Child in School,with Mary Frank.
- 1950.Society as the Patient: Essays on Culture and Personality.New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press.
- 1951.Nature and Human Nature: Man's New Image of Himself,withRuth Hartleyand Robert Goldenson. New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press.ISBN978-0837124537.
- 1951.Cultural Determinism and Free Will.Cincinnati:Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
- 1952.Understanding Children's Play.New York:Columbia University Press.
- 1953.Babies are Puppies, Puppies are Babies
- 1953.Personality Development in Adolescent Girls.New Orleans:Society for Research in Child Development,vol. XVI, no. 53.
- 1954.Feelings and Emotions.
- 1954.How to Be a Modern Leader.New York:Association Press.
- 1954.How to Be a Woman,with Mary Frank. New York:Bobbs-Merrill.
- 1955.Individual Development.
- 1956.Your Adolescent at Home and in School,with Mary Hughes Frank.
- 1961.Conduct of Sex: Biology and Ethics of Sex and Parenthood in Modern Life.New York: Morrow.
- 1966.On the Importance of Infancy.New York:Random House.
References
[edit]- ^Bryson, Dennis (1998)."Lawrence K. Frank, Knowledge, and the Production of the" Social "".Poetics Today.19(3): 401–421.doi:10.2307/1773426.ISSN0333-5372.JSTOR1773426.
- ^HISTORY OF CYBERNETICSby the ASC, retrieved 15 April 2008
- ^abProfile of Lawrence K. Frank[permanent dead link]from NCFR 25th Anniversary, 1963
- ^Lawrence K. Frank, obituary inNew York Times,24 September 1968
- ^"In memoriam—A Tribute to Lawrence K. Frank".The Gerontologist.9(1): 79–80. March 1969.doi:10.1093/geront/9.1.79.
- ^Smith, Matthew "A Fine Balance"Palgrave Communications2 (2016)
- ^"Lawrence K. Frank Papers 1914-1974".National Library of Medicine.
- ^Lawrence Kelso Frank Paperslisting
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