Ellwood's Europe

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2010

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550251

Abstract

Charles Ellwood is usually described as a junior member of the founding generation of American Sociology. Ellwood fulfils many of the standard stereotypes of the American sociology student of the era. He was born on a farm and, after winning a state scholarship, went to Cornell, as he himself noted, ‘because it was virtually the state university of New York’.1 He then went directly on to the University of Chicago, where he was converted only partially from his concerns with social problems to a theorist. He was one of the first PhDs in sociology from the University, and the first Chicago Sociology PhD to hold a position in sociology at a major university other than Chicago itself: a large land grant university in the Midwest, Missouri. He stayed there for most of his career until leaving for Duke, an institution with a strong religious orientation that prized him for his religious writings.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Ellwood's Europe, in C. Schrecker (Ed.), Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas, Routledge, p. 163-176

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