| 词条 | Alice Thorner |
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|name = Alice Thorner |birth_date = 1917 |birth_place = Latvia |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2005|8|24|1915}} |death_place = Paris, France |nationality = American |field = Social science }} Alice Thorner (1917 – 24 August 2005) was an American-born social scientist and statistician whose main research effort seems to have been partly devoted to the role assigned to women in the Indian society. Early yearsAlice Ginsburg was born in present-day Latvia in 1917.[1][2] He family emigrated to the USA soon later, and she earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1937. For her graduate studies she entered Columbia University, where she met a future husband and co-worker of her named Daniel Thorner before graduating from Columbia with an M.A. in social psychology in 1941. A family of her may even have been forced to turn her maiden name into Gaines due to a slight rise of American antisemitism in the thirties. Move to EnglandA stay in London partly funded by a doctoral fellowship of her husband[3] may have been the starting point of several long-lasting friendships with a few Indian social scientists named Haskar or Trivedi that would later greet her on a yearly basis in the country she enjoyed studying [4] and played a key role in a shift towards a slightly more left-winged view of society. WWII yearsThorner may have served as a statistician working for the American government.{{cn|date=April 2016}} Stay in IndiaA so-called witchhunt against some scientists that did not entirely reject some ideas described in part of the writings due to a soviet agrarian economist named Alexander V. Chayanov[5] associated to a husband refusal to testify against some friends they met in London[6] lead to several grant losses and was associated to an American passport withdrawal and significantly darkened university career prospects for both. A long stay in India that had been planned before begun in spite of these difficulties.[3] Thorner significantly contributed to updating a method of accounting for various categories of working women in later census as a consultant for the Indian government.[4] A book entitled Land and Labour in India was later co-authored with her husband as a summary of a relatively fruitful study of an India society. Settlement in FranceBruno Bettelheim seems to have played a relatively important role in presenting the Thorners to a then director of studies named Louis Dumont[4] that used to work at a then Sorbonne-based École pratique des hautes études. A development of what would later become an Indian social science department in School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences lead to an invitation by a historian named Fernand Braudel. An absence of PhD degree lead to some difficulties at becoming a lecturer when the Thorners decided to come to France. Later YearsA one-year period of illness due to cancer led Daniel Thorner into starting a 1974 world tour alone and his later death seems to have deeply affected Alice. School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences was the place where she attempted to keep teaching for close to twenty years and the invited professors of which she attempted to stay in contact through numerous invitations at her Parisian home.[7] A significant fraction of the writings of her husbands was published after his death due to her editing efforts. She made a point at returning to India every year and tried to strengthen the links between Indian and French social scientists by sometimes organizing symposia[8] or keeping in touch with a few other social scientists in France and abroad such as Marc Gaborieau, Jacques Pouchepadass, Sujata Patel and John DeFrancis. FamilyAlice and Daniel Thorner had two sons and two daughters who produced a total of five grandchildren. DeathShe died at the American Hospital of Paris in 2005. She was cremated and her ashes were buried next to her husband Daniel in Père Lachaise Cemetery. References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Patnaik|first1=Utsa|title=Alice Thorner (1918-2005)|url=http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/alice-thorner-1918-2005/|website=Monthly Review|accessdate=9 October 2015}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Thorner, Alice}}2. ^{{cite web|last1=Agarwal|first1=Bina|title=Literary Review|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2005/11/06/stories/2005110600170300.htm|website=The Hindu|accessdate=9 October 2015}} 3. ^1 Thorner, D. 1977 Investment in Empire: British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India Ayer Publishing. {{ISBN|0-405-09723-9}} 4. ^1 2 Thorner, A., Patel, S., Bagchi, J., & Raj, K. 2001 Thinking social science in India: Essays in honour of Alice Thorner. Sage Publications. pp 23 {{ISBN|0-761-99600-1}} 5. ^Chayanov, A. 1986 On the theory of peasant economy Manchester University Press. {{ISBN|0-7190-1864-1}} 6. ^Thorner, A. Excerpts from an FBI file Economic and Political WeeklyVol. 17, No. 21 (May 22, 1982), pp. 878-884 7. ^Gaborieau, M. Alice Thorner (1917-2005) Diogenes November 2006 53 pp. 135-138 8. ^Patel, S. and Thorner, A. 1995 Bombay: metaphor for modern India Oxford India Paperbacks. {{ISBN|0-195-63688-0}} 6 : 1917 births|2005 deaths|French sociologists|Development economists|American sociologists|Latvian scientists |
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