Center for Research on Social Organization (University of Michigan)records 1960-2001

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Center for Research on Social Organization (University of Michigan)records 1960-2001

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The Center for Research on Social Organization was created in 1960 by the University of Michigan Department of Sociology as a way to centralize and encourage the research and training activities of faculty and graduate students in the area of social organization. The Center's main function is to support the research activities of faculty and students studying organizational arrangements that structure group life, including power relations, distribution of social resources, and historical transformations. The records of the Center reflect its commitment to facilitating faculty and student research on social organization, and includes annual reports, correspondence, committee events, and programs.

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University of Michigan. Dept. of Sociology.

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While courses with sociological themes had been offered at the University of Michigan within the Departments of Political Science, Political Economy, and Philosophy since the early 1880s, the first courses bearing the name "sociology" were taught by Charles Horton Cooley in 1894. Cooley achieved a national reputation as one of the foremost sociologists of his day and was elected president of the American Sociological Society in 1918. Despite the growth in course offering...

Center for Research on Social Organization.

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Associated with the University of Michigan Department of Sociology, CRSO was established in 1960 to centralize research on the organizational arrangements that structure group life such as constitution of power and distribution of research. The center secures grants, promotes collaboration, and sponsors conferences and events. From the description of Center for Research on Social Organization records, 1960-2001. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 8...

University of Michigan. Center for Research on Social Organization.

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The Center for Research on Social Organization (CRSO) was officially established in April 1960, by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. The idea for the CRSO arose out of a need by the Department of Sociology to centralize and encourage the research and training activities of faculty and students interested in the area of social organization. Social organization is the analysis of the wide range and variety of organizations and organizational arrangements that structu...