Igor Kon

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Igor Kon
Russian
Alma materHerzen State Pedagogical University
Known forPioneer of sexology in the Soviet Union
AwardsGold Medal of the World Association for Sexual Health (2005)
Scientific career
Fieldssexology, gender studies, sociology, psychology, philosophy

Igor Semyonovich Kon (

sexologist
. His scientific publications have been translated into many languages, such as English, German, and French.

Biography

Kon was born in Leningrad (now

Leningrad State University
in 1959.

Kon worked at a variety of academic institutions between 1950 and 1974, holding positions at the

Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1967-68, the Institute of Concrete Social Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
) in 1968-72, and the Institute of Social Sciences in 1972-74. He has been chief researcher of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1974.

Kon was one of the first Soviet scholars to write textbooks on

sexual health
. He started studying these matters in the middle of the 1960s. His Vvedeniye v seksologiyu (Introduction to Sexology; 1988, 2005) was written as a textbook for universities.

He believed that sexology cannot be confined to the bounds of medical problems, but rather is an independent interdisciplinary science rather than a branch of medicine. Interviewed by Sarah Keller for his profile in a 1989 issue of the

European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, the International Sociological Association, the Polish Academy of Sex Research, and the European Association for Adolescent Psychology.[3] He was a member of the International Advisory Board of the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research.[4]

Death

Igor Kon died in Moscow, aged 82, in 2011, from cancer.[5][6][7]

Honors

Kon was awarded an honorary professorship from

doctor honoris causa degree from the University of Surrey in 1992.[3]

In 2005, the World Association for Sexual Health awarded Kon its Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to sexology.[8]

Publications

  • Kon, Igor & James Riordan (Eds.) (1993). Sex and Russian Society. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press;
    ISBN 978-0-253-33201-1
    .
  • Kon, I. (1989) A History of Classical Sociology. Trans. H. Campbell Creighton. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
    ISBN 5-01-001102-6
    .
  • Kon, I. (1995) Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today. Trans. James Riordan. New York: Free Press;
    ISBN 978-0-02-917541-5
    .
  • Kon, I. S. and Guseinov, S. N. (editors). A dictionary of ethics. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1990. 455 p.
  • Kon, I. S. (editor). A history of classical sociology. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1989. 376 p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
  • Alexandrov, Vladimir. * Volkov, F. M., Gubsky, Ye. F., Afanasyev, V. G., Ibrahim, Taufic, Imam, Zafar, Kon, I. S., Krivoguz, I. M., Petrovsky, A. V., Popov, Yu. N., Reza, Munis, Romanovsky, N. V., Tumanov, V. A., Vereshchetin, V. S., Zdravomyslov, A. G., and Zotov, V. D. (editors). Essays in contemporary history : 1946 - 1990. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1990. [371] p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by Lev Bobrov.
  • Anderson, K. M., Bogina, Sh. A., Falkovich, S. M., Guseva, N. M., Islamov, T. M., Kovalskaya, M. I., Krivoguz, I. M., Lebedev, I. A., Losev, Yu. G., Mikhailov, M. I., Obolenskaya, S. V., Pavlova, T. A., Pritsker, D. P., Roginsky, V. V., Slezkin, L. Yu., Yurovskaya, Ye. Ye., and Zverev, A. M. * Yurovskaya, Ye., Volkov, F. M., Gubsky, Ye. F., Afanasyev, V. G., Ibrahim, Taufic, Imam, Zafar, Kon, I. S., Krivoguz, I. M., Petrovsky, A. V., Popov, Yu. N., Reza, Munis, Romanovsky, N. V., Tumanov, V. A., Vereshchetin, V. S., Zdravomyslov, A. G., and Zotov, V. D. (editors). Modern history : 1640 - 1870. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1990. [351] p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by Barry Jones.
  • Chuvilkin, O. D., Lomakin, V. K., Proshunin, N. N., and Vishnyakova, I. V. * Volkov, F. M., Gubsky, Ye. F., Afanasyev, V. G., Ibrahim, Taufic, Imam, Zafar, Kon, I. S., Krivoguz, I. M., Petrovsky, A. V., Popov, Yu. N., Reza, Munis, Romanovsky, N. V., Tumanov, V. A., Vereshchetin, V. S., Zdravomyslov, A. G., and Zotov, V. D. (editors). The political map of the world. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1990. [244] p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by Patty Beriozkina.
  • Getmanova, Alexandra. * Volkov, F. M., Gubsky, Ye. F., Afanasyev, V. G., Ibrahim, Taufic, Imam, Zafar, Kon, I. S., Krivoguz, I. M., Petrovsky, A. V., Popov, Yu. N., Reza, Munis, Romanovsky, N. V., Tumanov, V. A., Zdravomyslov, A. G., and Zotov, V. D. (editors). Logic. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1989. [358] p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by Stephen Smith.
  • Rakitov, Anatoly. * Volkov, F. M., Gubsky, Ye. F., Afanasyev, V. G., Kon, I. S., Krivoguz, I. M., Munis, Reza, Petrovsky, A. V., Popov, Yu. N., Romanovsky, N. V., Shuare, Marta, Taufik, Ibrahim, Tumanov, V. A., Zafar, Imam, Zdravomyslov, A. G., and Zotov, V. D. (editors). The principles of philosophy. Moscow : Progress Publishers. 1989. [366] p. Series title: Student's library. Translated by H. Campbell Creighton.

References

  1. St. Petersburg State University
    Department of Psychology. Retrieved 2 March 2011. (in Russian)
  2. ^ Keller, Sarah. "Guru of Glandsnost". Mother Jones, Vol. 14, #2 (February–March 1989) pg. 14; ISSN 0362-8841
  3. ^ a b Human Rights and Homosexuality, Past Present and Future: Speakers and Moderators Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine (2010). Retrieved 2 March 2011
  4. ^ German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS) Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 March 2011
  5. ^ Скончался известный социолог, философ и сексолог Игорь Кон
  6. ^ Top Russian sexologist Igor Kon died Archived 2011-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Famous scientist Igor Kon died in Moscow
  8. ^ WAS Awards, World Association for Sexual Health (2011). Retrieved 2 March 2011

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