Draft:John A. Sonquist
Musician and academic
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John A. Sonquist (1931 — September 20, 2017)[1][2] was a musician, music arranger, and academic. His academic work was focused on Computer and Social Sciences, creating a series of courses called Sonquist Tech while he was working at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also focused on serving his community.[1][2][3]
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Early Life and Education
Sonquist was born in Elmhurst, Illinois in 1931, to parents J. Albert and Clare Sonquist. He started playing piano at age 4.[2][4] After the death of his father, his uncle Dave Sonquist helped his mother raise him.[2] During the summer he turned 16, John went to the Circle Pines Center, a recreation focused co-op, which his uncle directed in Michigan. It was during this time that he would meet his eventual wife, Hanne Deutsch.[2][5]
After marrying Deutsch in 1950, he got his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1951.[2][4][5] He was a conscientious objector, and completed his alternative service at Manteno State Hospital as a recreation coordinator from July 1953 to May 1955.[2] In 1969, he got his PhD in Computer Applications in Social Science from the University of Chicago.[2][4]
Career
Sonquist worked as the Director of Computer Services for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan starting in 1959.[2][3][5] He had three children with his wife, named Eric, Catherine, and Kristin.[1][2][5] In 1970, he became an Associate Professor for the Sociology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[5] It was during this time that he created a series of courses that combined computer use and social sciences, called Sonquist Tech.[2][3][6] He would stay on as a professor for 21 years before retiring in 1991.[2][3][6]
Retirement
After retiring, Sonquist served on the boards of the Santa Barbara Music Club as treasurer, the local ACLU chapter, and the Piano Club of Santa Barbara.[2][3][6] He also played piano for and directed the Live Oak Unitarian Congregation.[2][6]
His wife died on May 31, 2009 from lymphoma.[5] His death followed on September 20, 2017, at the age of 86.[1][3][4][6]
Publications
- Morgan, J. N., & Sonquist, J. A. (1963). Problems in the analysis of survey data, and a proposal. Journal of the American statistical association, 58(302), 415-434.
- Morgan, J. N., & Sonquist, J. A. (1963). Some results from a non-symmetrical branching process that looks for interaction effects. Young, 8(5), 40-53.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1967). Simulating the research analyst. Social Science Information, 6(4), 207-215.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1969). Finding variables that work. Public Opinion Quarterly, 33(1), 83-95.
- Sonquist, J. A., & Koenig, T. (1975). Interlocking directorates in the top US corporations: a graph theory approach. Insurgent Sociologist, 5(3), 196-229.
- McClintock, E., & Sonquist, J. A. (1976). Cooperative task-oriented groups in a college classroom: A field application. Journal of Educational Psychology, 68(5), 588.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1976, October). Organizational change and educational computing. In Proceedings of the 1976 annual conference (pp. 462-466).
- Sonquist, J. A. (1977). Computers and the social sciences: An overview. American Behavioral Scientist, 20(3), 295-318.
- Sonquist, J. A., & Sim, F. M. (1977). " Retailing" Computer Resources to Social Scientists. American Behavioral Scientist, 20(3), 319-345.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1978). Review of "Using the Computer in The Social Sciences: A Nontechnical Approach, by Ronn J. Hy", Elsevier, 1977. ACM SIGSOC Bulletin, 9(2), 6-7.
- Loseke, D. R., & Sonquist, J. A. (1979). The computer worker in the labor force: New occupations and old problems. Sociology of Work and Occupations, 6(2), 156-183.
- Sonquist, J. A., & Koenig, T. (1984). Interlocking directorates in the top US corporations: A graph theory approach. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2(1), 41-74.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1984). Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research.
- Sonquist, J. A. (1990). MicrOsiris: Statistical and Data Management Software System.