Sociology

Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence of Maurice Rea Davie, primarily with Albert G. Keller, writings, subject files, and photographs.

Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, legal papers, personal papers, and photographs that document the life and career of Maurice Parmelee, eminent sociologist and economist. Correspondents include Louis Gaspar, Franklin H. Giddings, Russell Knutson, and H. L. Mencken. The completed manuscript of an unpublished biography comprises a particularly substantive portion of the papers.

Abstract:

An artificial collection of notes, lectures, student papers, scrapbooks, and writings relating to the study and teaching of the academic disciplines in the social sciences including economics, education, psychology, political science, philosophy, and sociology, 1866-1967. The papers of Charles Andrews Armstrong Bennett, Albert Bushnell Hart, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, Wilbur Marshall Urban, and Alfred North Whitehead are included.

Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records of William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, professor at Yale University, and advocate of free trade and the gold standard. The correspondence (over 13,000 items) documents many of Sumner's interests including the Yale College curriculum and economic and political issues. It also includes substantive accounts from friends in the South about Reconstruction, the...