George A. Lundberg papers 1916-1968 1935-1965

University of Washington. University Archives

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University of Washington. Dept. of Sociology.

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Washington was established in 1917 and awarded its first doctorate in 1932. It became one of the first American sociology departments to view sociology as a scientific discipline. As a consequence, the graduate curriculum placed particular emphasis on general theory and quantitative methodology. Faculty conducted research in three principal areas: the discovery of new empirical facts, the imputation of causal mechanisms, and the rigorous testing o...

Lundberg, George Andrew, 1895-1966

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Sociologist George A. Lundberg, born at Fairdale, North Dakota in 1895, attended the University of North Dakota (B.A., 1920), the University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1922) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1925). Although he served as an instructor in sociology at the University of Washington between 1925 and 1927, it was not until 1945 that Lundberg returned to Washington as Professor of Sociology and Head of his department, replacing Jesse F. Steiner. In the interveni...