Sheldon Stryker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSheldon Stryker
American sociologist
Date of Birth: 26-May-1924
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 04-May-2016
Profession: sociologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Sheldon Stryker
- Sheldon Stryker (1924–2016) was an American sociologist.
- Born in St.
- Paul, Minnesota, on May 26, 1924, Stryker was raised by his grandfather and his aunts after his mother died.
- He sought to enlist in the United States Army in 1942, but was rejected due to bad vision.
- Stryker was drafted and became a combat medic the next year.
- After World War II ended, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota to study social work.
- Stryker changed his major to sociology later completed a doctorate in the subject at UM in 1955.
- He taught at Indiana University, Bloomington from 1950 to 2002.
- Stryker served as editor in chief of Social Psychology Quarterly from 1967 to 1969, and assumed an equivalent role for the American Sociological Review between 1982 and 1986.
- He died on May 4, 2016, in Sarasota, Florida, aged 91, of surgical complications.
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