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Up for sale a RARE! "Grandson of Brigham Young" Kimball Young Hand Signed 5.5X3 Card.
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Kimball Young (October 26, 1893
– September 1, 1972) was the president of the American Sociological
Association in 1945. Young was the grandson of Brigham
Young. He was born in Provo, Utah, and graduated from Brigham Young University in
1915. However, Kimball Young himself was not a believer in the Latter-day Saint faith, and spoke condescendingly of
those who were. He then taught high school for a year in Arizona before going to study at the University of Chicago for sociology. His decision to study
at Chicago was largely due to advice from William J. Snow. After studying there, he went to study
at Stanford University, where
he earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1921. In his 1927 Source Book for
Social Psychology, Young coined the term 'ambivert' to describe a person
exhibiting features of both an extrovert and an introvert. He is credited with
the origin of the word. Young
began his teaching career as a professor at the University of Oregon.
Later, he was a member of the faculty of Clark University, then went back to Oregon for four years, and
then joined the faculty of the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. In 1940, he became the chair of sociology
at Queens College. In 1947 he
took up the same position at Northwestern University.
