Records of the Department of Sociology, 1931-1980 (inclusive).

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Records of the Department of Sociology, 1931-1980 (inclusive).

Includes records from earlier Dept. of Sociology, 1931-1946, such as minutes; correspondence of P.A. Sorokin; reports of the Committee on Honors and of the Scholarship Committee; records of Tutorial Board; and general material such as expenditure tables, exams, and tutorial reading list. Also general office and faculty records from the later Dept., 1970-1980,including correspondence about faculty appointments, including Afro-American joint appointment, and searches; admission; funds and fellowships; etc. Includes some Dept. of Social Relations records. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard University. Dept. of Social Relations.

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Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968

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Harvard University Dept. of Sociology professor, served as the chairman of the Eastern Sociological Conference Committee on Local Arrangements. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1931-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243847369 Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, was a British-American anthropologist, specializing in the areas of race and gender issues, as well as a prolific speake...

Harvard University. Dept. of Sociology.

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The Department of Sociology was established in 1931 replacing the Department of Social Ethics. In 1946 it became the Department of Social Relations. The Department of Sociology was reestablished in 1970. From the description of Records of the Department of Sociology, 1931-1980 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972679 ...