Papers, 1924-1982 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1924-1982 (inclusive).

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Contains corrrespondence; manuscripts; minutes; reports; lectures; conference papers; teaching materials including syllabi, bibliographies, and examination questions; travel diaries; memoranda; research material; and subject files. Correspondents include Nels Anderson, David Riesman, and other colleagues. Subject files comprise material from organizations such as the Social Science Research Council Committee on Sociolinguistics, the American Sociological Association, and the American Medical Association. Material reflects Hughes' research interests in race and ethnic relations, industrialization, and professions. Papers include work done for the Canadian Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-1965) for which Margaret Westley and Jacques Lamontagne did field work. Other material includes reminiscences of Hughes' student days at the University of Chicago, essays on the Chicago School of Sociology, notes from Robert E. Park courses, research on the German Catholic labor movement (1931-1933), and papers relating to the University of Chicago Committee on Human Relations in Industry (1944-1945) and the American Priest Study (1970-1971). Additional topics focus on studies carried out with Howard Becker and Blanche Geer on specialization at the University of Kansas Medical School and undergraduates at the University of Kansas.

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Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

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Everett C. Hughes was born in 1897 in Beaver, Ohio. He received his A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918 and continued with his education at the University of Chicago, earning a doctorate in both sociology and anthropology in 1928. He married Helen Gregory MacGill in 1927, and they had two daughters, Helen Cherrington Brock and Elizabeth Gregory Schneewind. From 1927-1938, Hughes was a professor at McGill University in Canada. He wrote extensively on Canada, particularly French Canadian s...

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

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David Riesman (born September 22, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died May 10, 2002, Binghamton, New York) was an American sociologist, attorney, writer, and educator. He is best known as the author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), an examination of post-WWII American society. The book struck a chord with readers and became a bestseller, contributing the terms "inner-directed," "outer-directed," and "tradition-...

Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944

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Sociologist. Ph. B., University of Michigan, 1887. Newspaper reporter in Minneapolis, Detroit, Denver, New York, and Chicago, 1887-1898. M.A., Harvard University, 1899. Ph. D., University of Heidelberg, 1904. Assistant in philosophy, Harvard University, 1904-1905. Secretary of the Congo Reform Association. Aide to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute. Professorial lecturer on sociology, University of Chicago, 1915-1923; professor of sociology, 1923-1929. Lecturer, Fisk University, 1936-194...

Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Sociolinguistics

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Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-....

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American Medical Association. Citizens Commission on Medical Education.

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Westley, Margaret W

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Lamontagne, Jacques.

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Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986

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Author and professor of sociology at New Brunswick University. From the description of On my being a MOrmon, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497365 From the guide to the On my being a Mormon, 1980, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Nels Anderson was born in Chicago in 1889. His family moved quite often, exposing Anderson to many societies, including the Nez Perce Indians. He attended high school at Brigham Young Preperatory School and the St. George Academy...

Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism

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Geer, Blanche

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