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Viola Klein was born on 1908, is a British sociologist. Discover Viola Klein's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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1908

Viola Klein (1908–1973) was a sociologist in Great Britain.

Her work demonstrated that objective ideas about women's attributes are socially constructed.

Although her early training was in psychology and philosophy, her most prolific research engagements concerned women's social roles and how these changed after the Industrial Revolution.

She was one of the first scholars to bring quantitative evidence to bear on this socio-economic topic.

Her research not only illuminated the changing roles of women in society, but she also wrote and lectured on concrete social and political changes that would help facilitate these new roles.

Viola Klein was born in Vienna in 1908 to a Jewish family.

As a young student, she moved to Prague with her family owing to political circumstances after studying one year at the Sorbonne University in Paris and a short period at the University of Vienna.

She continued her studies at the University in Prague and graduated in fields of psychology and philosophy.

During her studies in Prague, she worked as an assistant editor.

Besides psychology and philosophy, she was also interested in French literature.

1930

Because of her interest in the woman question she visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

1938

In 1938, she and her brother migrated to England.

Shortly after fleeing, their parents died in a Nazi concentration camp.

As Jewish refugees, Klein and her brother had problems finding work in England.

1942

In her first important work: The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology, she claimed that attitudes in society considered as feminine are not factual observations but preconceptions and particular subjective interpretations (Klein, Correspondence, May 30, 1942, Klein papers).

1946

In 1946, Klein published her second thesis, one of her best known publications - The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology.

This publication was criticized because of its ostensibly militant feminism which departed from the traditional views and values.

Her encouragement of women to work if they so desired, was perceived by critics as a destructive social force, provoking destabilization and family problems.

Klein worked in relatively lower status positions as editor, translator and teacher.

With her work Klein wanted to demonstrate that scientists, whose assumptions result from particular branches of knowledge, are not free from the social, cultural and historical climates of their time (Klein 1946, p. 30).

She observed that scientific objective studies about femininity are full of stereotypes and repeat particular traits like "passivity, emotionally, lack of abstract interests, greater intensity of personal relationships and, an instinctive tenderness for babies" (Klein 1946, p. 164).

Therefore, she wanted to define a feminine nature, using notions of social and cultural expectations (Klein 1946, p. 171) "Klein sought to isolate psychological influences on sex difference by excluding sex-related traits that could be attributed to social function, historic tradition and prevailing ideology" (Klein, 1946, p. 129).

Pointing out that every individual in society occupies various social positions; Klein wrote that each position includes particular patterns of roles and behaviors (Klein 1946, p. 136).

1951

Starting in 1951, she collaborated with the Swedish sociologist Alva Myrdal and together they eventually published the book Women's Two Roles: Home and Work.

This publication helped her to increase her involvement in international research activities.

1964

In 1964, she was offered her first academic post as lecturer in the Sociology department at the University of Reading in Great Britain.

1971

After 3 years, she was promoted to senior lecturer and in 1971 to reader.

1973

In 1973, shortly after her retirement, she died at the age of 65.

Klein's thoughts were constructed around the meaning of a femininity concept and the social creation of a feminine character.

1990

For a long time before the concept of gender was used in scientific discourse (e.g. Butler 1990; Bornstein 1995), Klein considered Role Theory in her research on what is feminine (Terrant 2006, p. 148; Klein 1946).

2006

Providing a question about sources of the knowledge about womanhood and examining studies from the beginning of the 19th century, she wanted to prove that "what we think of specific perspectives are not guaranteed truths but the ideas subject to the influence of surrounding culture and personal bias" (Terrant 2006, p. 134).

2007

Her first doctoral thesis was about the linguistic style of the modernist French author Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Lyon 2007, p. 831).

Inspired by this visit she wrote several articles in British magazines about "double speak" (Lyon 2007, p. 832).

It represented the new role of women in society, marriage and the family.

For a short period of time, she worked as a domestic servant until she finally received a scholarship from the Czech government operating in exile (Lyon 2007, p. 832).

This enabled her to enroll in the London School of Economics and to work on her second doctorate diploma.

During her studies in London, she met the well-known sociologist Karl Mannheim, who became her supervisor.

Because of their similar cultural background they were interested in similar social issues, literature and art.

Both of them were collecting information and ideas relating to her thesis while traveling across the country between different universities.

However, she continued her research working on female employment in Great Britain (Lyon, 2007, p. 834).