Allan G. Johnson
{{Short description|American sociologist}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Allan G. Johnson
| image = Allan G Johnson 2003.png
| caption = Johnson at a 2003 video interview
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| birth_name = Allan G. Johnson
| birth_date = 1946
| birth_place = Washington, DC, US
| death_date = December 24, 2017
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| occupation = Author, Sociologist, Public Speaker
| education = PhD., Sociology
| alma_mater = Dartmouth College
University of Michigan
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| genre = Sociology, fiction
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| notableworks = {{plainlist|
- The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy
- The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
- Privilege, Power, and Difference
- The First Thing and the Last
- Not from Here
}}
| spouse = Nora L. Jamieson
| partner =
| children =
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| website = {{URL|http://www.agjohnson.us/}}
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Allan G. Johnson (1946–2017) was an American writer and public speaker who worked in the fields of sociology and gender studies. One of his nonfiction works is The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, about the detrimental effects of the patriarchy. He died of lymphoma.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=187751555|title = Allan Johnson Obituary (1946 - 2018)|website=legacy.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/obituaries/hc-extraordinary-life-allan-johnson-0128-story.html|title=Extraordinary Life: He Was A Feminist, Concerned With Power And Privilege|website=Hartford Courant|date=Jan 28, 2018|access-date=2022-07-08|last=Hamilton|first=Anne}}
Biography
Allan G. Johnson was born in Washington, DC.{{Cite web|url=http://www.agjohnson.us/about/|title=About|website=Allan G. Johnson|date=7 January 2010|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-14}} He lived there until he was six years old, when he and his family moved to Oslo, Norway, for two years while his father served at the U.S. Embassy. When the family returned to the United States, they settled in Massachusetts.
Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in Sociology and English at Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan. His dissertation focused on women's roles in Mexico City. After receiving his PhD, he worked at Wesleyan University in the sociology department. During this time, he published his first book, Social Statistics without Tears. After he left Wesleyan, he worked at Hartford College for Women, teaching sociology and women's studies. During this time, he wrote a number of books, including The Gender Knot and The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise.
In 1995, Johnson began working as a corporate trainer and began doing freelance public speaking engagements after The Gender Knot was published. During this time, he began to publish novels, including The First Thing And The Last and Nothing Left to Lose.
Bibliography
- Social Statistics without Tears (1977)
- Human arrangements: An introduction to sociology, 4th edition 1996)
- The forest for the trees: An introduction to sociological thinking (1997)
- The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, 3rd edition (2014){{cite journal|last1=Rosenthal|first1=N.B.|title=Johnson, Allan G.: The gender knot: unraveling our patriarchal legacy (review)|journal=Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|date=April 2015|volume=52|issue=8|page=1409}}{{Cite journal|last=Kahn|first=Arnold S|date=1998-06-01|title=UNRAVELING PATRIARCHY (review)|journal=Psychology of Women Quarterly|language=en|volume=22|issue=2|pages=305–307|doi=10.1111/j.1471-6402.1998.tb00156.x|s2cid=149412743|issn=1471-6402}}
- Privilege, Power, and Difference, 3rd edition (2017){{Cite journal|last=Egan|first=Daniel|date=2002-01-01|title=Review of Privilege, Power, and Difference|jstor=3211393|journal=Teaching Sociology|volume=30|issue=2|pages=266–267|doi=10.2307/3211393}}{{Cite journal|last=KINSER|first=AMBER E.|date=2005-01-01|title=Review of Privilege, Power, and Difference. 2d edition|jstor=40546045|journal=Feminist Teacher|volume=15|issue=3|pages=255–256}}{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Amy|title=Privilege, Power, and Difference. (review)|journal=Women & Language|date=2008|volume=31|issue=1|pages=67–68}}{{Cite journal|last=Collins|first=L.H.|date=2002-03-01|title=Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, & Difference (review)|journal=Psychology of Women Quarterly|language=en|volume=26|issue=1|pages=92–98|doi=10.1111/1471-6402.00047|s2cid=151932048|issn=1471-6402}}
- The Blackwell Dictionary Of Sociology: A User's Guide To Sociological Language, 2nd Edition (2005){{Cite book|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Blackwell-Dictionary-of-Sociology-Allan-G-Johnson/pid=249886|title=Blackwell Dictionary Of Sociology (review)|via=Booklist|access-date=April 18, 2016}}{{cite journal|title=Johnson, Allan G. The Blackwell dictionary of sociology: a user's guide to sociological language (review)|journal=Choice Reviews|date=November 2000|volume=38|issue=3|pages=38–1312|doi=10.5860/CHOICE.38-1312|doi-broken-date=1 February 2025 }}{{cite journal|last1=Wentworth|first1=William|title=The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociological Language (review)|journal=Contemporary Sociology|date=January 1998|volume=27|issue=1|page=112|id={{ProQuest|233590971}}|doi=10.2307/2654763|jstor=2654763}}
- Nothing Left to Lose (2012){{Cite web|url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2011/10/books/fiction/fiction-reviews-october-15-2011/|title=Fiction Reviews, October 15, 2011|website=Library Journal Reviews|access-date=2016-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426112928/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2011/10/books/fiction/fiction-reviews-october-15-2011/|archive-date=April 26, 2016|url-status=dead}}
- The First Thing and the Last (2010)
- The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise, 3rd edition (2014){{cite journal|last1=Coulter|first1=B Gerry|title=The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice and Promise (review)|journal=The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology|date=February 1999|volume=36|issue=1|pages=139–141|id={{ProQuest|234925189}}}}{{Cite journal|last=Kaufman|first=Peter|date=1998-01-01|title=Review of The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice and Promise|jstor=1318837|journal=Teaching Sociology|volume=26|issue=3|pages=229–230|doi=10.2307/1318837}}{{Cite journal|last=Chambliss|first=Daniel F.|date=1999-01-01|editor-last=Johnson|editor-first=Allan G.|editor2-last=Lemert|editor2-first=Charles|editor3-last=Schwalbe|editor3-first=Michael|title=What Are We Trying to Teach?|jstor=2653924|journal=Contemporary Sociology|volume=28|issue=1|pages=121–125|doi=10.2307/2653924}}{{Cite journal|title=Johnson, Allan G. The forest and the trees: sociology as life, practice, and promise (review)|date=January 1998|journal=Choice Reviews Online|volume=35|issue=5|pages=35–3024|doi=10.5860/CHOICE.35-3024|doi-broken-date=1 February 2025 }}
- Not from Here: A Memoir (2015)
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