Dept. of Sociology (University of Michigan) records, 1929-1987.

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Dept. of Sociology (University of Michigan) records, 1929-1987.

Annual reports; budget files; executive committee minutes and records of other department committees; course evaluations; files relating to establishment, dissolution, and evaluations of programs; and faculty evaluations.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7361239

Bentley Historical Library

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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...

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...

University of Michigan. Department of Psychology

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Psychology as a separate course of study was not recognized in the United States until the last quarter of the nineteenth century. At the University of Michigan, the Department of Psychology was officially formed in 1929, but instruction in psychology or "Mental Philosophy" as it was called, was available from the Department of Philosophy from 1852. Many prominent figures in early American psychology taught at the University of Michigan. President Tappan, who was professor of mental...

University of Michigan. Center for Research in Social Organization.

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University of Michigan. Doctoral Program in Social Psychology.

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