Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 13, Number 2 (WINTER, 1988)

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    Sociology and Charity: The 1899 Nebraska Lectures
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Ellwood, Charles A.
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    The Intellectual Legacy of Nebraska Sociology: A Bibliographical Chronology of Separately Published Works, 1887-1989
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Hill, Michael R.
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    The Foundations of an American Discipline: Edward A. Ross' Intellectual Work at the University of Nebraska, 1901-1906
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Keith, Bruce
    Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska during the spring of 1901, after being curtly dismissed from Stanford University the previous December in a controversial freedom of speech case (cf., Weinberg 1972). Ross was the first Professor of Sociology, per se, at Nebraska. During the five years (1901-1906) he taught at Nebraska, Ross' publications instrumentally shaped the character of the new discipline of sociology in the United States. On the basis of his scholarly work at Nebraska, Ross became recognized as one of the foremost American sociologists of the twentieth century," This paper reviews the interpretive context of Ross' Nebraska work and surveys the major intellectual contributions of his monographs from this period.
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    George E. Howard's Institutional Sociology of Marriage and Divorce
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Ball, Michael R.
    In 1904, with the publication of A History of Matrimonial Institutions, George Elliott H?ward became an internationally recognized expert on ~amage and family. Howard's work marked the start of serious sociological studr of mamage and family at the University of Nebraska, a tradition that contmues to the present day. This paper introduces Howard's theoretical perspective on marriage as a social institution, locates his work within a new wave of empirically rigorous and intellectually robust American soclology, and notes Howard's practical focus as a sociological spokesperson on the divorce question."
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    Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 13, Number 2 (WINTER, 1988): Front Matter
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)
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    The Stranger at the Curb
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Sandoz, Mari
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    Research by Bureaucracy: Hattie Plum Williams and the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1929-1931
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Hill, Michael R.
    This paper explores the bureaucratized research activities (1929-1931) of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (NCLOE) from the perspective of Hattie Plum Williams' sociobiographical experience. Williams was a doctoral student of George E. Howard and earned her Ph.D. in 1915 -- the first doctorate in sociology awarded by the University of Nebraska. That same year, she joined the Nebraska faculty and eventually became Chair of the Department (1922-1928).2 In 1931, at age 53, this full professor was called upon be an unpaid fieldworker, gathering data according to rigid protocols stipulated by the NCLOE. Archival reconstruction of Williams' "view from the bottom" of the university and NCLOE bureaucracies is the special focus of this paper. This perspective purposefully opens the disciplinary record to examine a neglected woman's work In sociology (Long 1987).
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    Sociology in the University of Nebraska, 1899-1927
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01) Howard, George Elliott