Frank Tannenbaum was an Austrian

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-American historian

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, sociologist and criminologist who immigrated to the United States in 1905. He received his bachelor's degree

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 from Columbia University

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 in 1921 and later received his Ph.D.

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 in economics from the Brookings Institution

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. He then moved to Mexico

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, where he conducted research on rural education and served as an adviser to President Lázaro Cárdenas

Lázaro Cárdenas

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. In 1932, he returned to the United States to teach criminology

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 at Cornell University

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 and in 1935 he joined the faculty

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 at Columbia, where be became professor of Latin America

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n history.http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/harlem/tannenbaum.html A notable student at Columbia was historian Robert Alexander

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Tannenbaum helped formulate legislation that established the Farm Security Administration

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.http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/harlem/tannenbaum.html His conception of the "Dramatization Of Evil" led to the further development of the symbolic interactionist

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 labeling theory

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, widely used in both sociology and social psychology

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After retiring from Columbia University in 1965, he died in 1969. http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/harlem/tannenbaum.html

Major scholarly publications

• The Mexican agrarian revolution, 1930
• Slave and citizen, 1947
• Mexico: the struggle for peace and bread, 1950
• Crime and the Community, 1951
• A philosophy of labor, 1951
• Ten Keys to Latin America, 1962

External links

• Tannenbaum, Frank Sample entry from the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• Tannenbaum, Frank Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia entry on encyclopedia.com