Jonathan H. Turner (born September 7, 1942),[1] is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.
After receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, since the academic year 1969–1970 he has been at UCR.
He is known as a general theorist of sociology, although he has a number of specialties: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology.
Turner was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award by the American Sociological Association alongside co-author Jan E. Stets for their book Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.
[3] Turner is an author of forty-one books, including textbooks, and well over two hundred articles.