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He became active in the university extension movement throughout the western United States, writing and lecturing on history, sociology and economics. [1] He was elected dean when the graduate school of the University of Kansas was organized in 1896. [2] He wrote several books of local history, handbooks of economy and some political pamphlets.
His dissertation was “An Experimental Comparison of Statistical and Case-History Methods of Attitude Research,” supervised by Herbert Blumer. He then served as a professor of sociology, statistics, and social statistics at universities such as the University of Chicago, the University of London , and the University of Wisconsin–Madison .
Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University. [2] From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania [3] and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. [4]
Sewell received his B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1962 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. His dissertation was titled "The Structure of the Working Class of Marseille in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century," and his advisor was the historian Hans Rosenberg.
Local Constitutional History of the United States (1889) The Evolution of the University (1890) The King's Peace and the Local Peace Magistracy (1891) History of Matrimonial Institutions (three volumes, 1904) Preliminaries of the Revolution (1905) Social Control and Function of the Family (1906) General Sociology (1907) The Family and Marriage ...
Louise Tilly has been one of the leaders in the growth of scholarship on women's history, the history of the family, and social history in the late 20th century, helping to create an interdisciplinary approach to the study of social change that combines anthropology, sociology, economics, and demography with traditional archival and historical ...
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ ˈ w ɔː l ər s t iː n /; [2] September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian.He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. [3]
Everett Verner Stonequist (October 5, 1901 – March 26, 1979) was an American Sociologist perhaps best known for his 1937 book, The Marginal Man "The marginal person is poised in the psychological uncertainty between two (or more) social worlds; reflecting in his soul the discords and harmonies, repulsions and attractions of these worlds...within which membership is implicitly if not ...