Sociology and Modern Social Problems

by Charles Abram Ellwood

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224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Charles Abram Ellwood was one of the leading American sociologists of the interwar period, studying intolerance, communication and revolutions and using many multidisciplinary methods. He argued that sociology should play a role in directing cultural evolution through education of society.

He graduated from Cornell University in 1896 and studied also at the Universities of Chicago and Berlin. For one year he was lecturer and instructor at the University of Nebraska and in 1900 became professor of sociology at the University of Missouri. He became also advisory editor of the American Journal of Sociology and associate editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. In 1904 he served as president of the Missouri Confederated Charities. He was the fourteenth president of the American Sociological Association in 1924. He spent the first 30 years of his career and rose to national prominence at the University of Missouri-Columbia before a 15-year tenure at Duke University.

Reviews

[Lynne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book may provide some interesting conceptualizations of how the family group came to be but it is, other than that, a canonization of very old ideas that need not be perpetuated. Use this as a reference of what was, not what is.