Aaron Victor Cicourel, (August 29, 1928 – July 22, 2023) was an American sociologist.
A professor of sociology who spent much of his career at the University of California, San Diego, he specialized in sociolinguistics,[1] medical communication, decision-making, and child socialization.
He was intellectually influenced greatly by Alfred Schutz, Erving Goffman,[2] and Harold Garfinkel.
Cicourel held a Russell Sage Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at London University in England, a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Madrid in Spain, and was a Fulbright lecturer in Brazil and Spain.
Cicourel was likely the first scholar to use the full name of "British Sign Language" in an academic publication.