Richard A. Peterson (sociologist)

Richard Austin Peterson (September 28, 1932 – February 4, 2010) was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He was the founding chairman of the American Sociological Association's culture section, and the section's prize for the best graduate student paper is named in honor of him. He was a major contributor to the "production of culture" perspective within the sociology of culture,[2][3] and a widely known scholar of popular music, country-western in particular. Peterson's highly-cited book Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity "is one of the most important scholarly works ever written about the genre".[4] The journal Poetics released a special double issue devoted to the contributions of Peterson to the sociology of culture.

Richard A. Peterson
Pete Peterson in 2008
Born
Richard Austin Peterson

September 28, 1932
Mussoorie, British India[1]
DiedFebruary 4, 2010 (aged 77)
Nashville, Tennessee
Alma materOberlin College (B.A.) University of Illinois (Ph.D.)
Known forsociology of culture, sociology of music
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsVanderbilt University
Academic advisorsAlvin Gouldner

Early life and education

Richard Peterson was born in Mussoorie, British India, where his father was a missionary. He graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's, and attended graduate school at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he worked with the sociologist Alvin Gouldner and completed his PhD in 1962[5] In 1965, Peterson received a job in the sociology department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.[6] It was there that he began to study the country music scene in-depth.

gollark: Just force them to be written more along the lines of "please help these people afford food", instead of playing on human things with... what is it, sad music, pictures of specific people, sort of thing.
gollark: No, not exactly.
gollark: If you force people to STOP making emotional appeals, it may be somewhat better.
gollark: Of course, you might dispute that it'll actually save lives or something, but factual issues can be debated more sanely than the usual political thing where you just fight to connect your opponent with disliked things.
gollark: You can say "this policy will be good due to saving some amount of lives through X" instead of "this policy is amazing and wonderful because we will move toward good things and away from bad things and think of the children all who disagree support terrorism".

References
  1. U.S., Consular Reports of Births, 1910-1949
  2. Dowd, Timothy J.; Janssen, Susanne (1 April 2010). "Richard A. Peterson (1932–2010)". Poetics. 38 (2): 111–113. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2010.03.001.
  3. Inglis, David; Almila, Anna-Mari (2016-05-09). The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4739-5868-5.
  4. "Richard A. "Pete" Peterson, Country Music Scholar, Dead at 77". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
  5. "Vanderbilt University – Department of Sociology". 2008-05-04. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2017-01-02.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  6. "Sociologist Pete Peterson has died – Vanderbilt University: myVU". 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2017-01-02.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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