A Blumer Bibliography
This bibliography is undoubtedly incomplete. It was built up from bibliographic references in Martyn Hammersley's The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition (London: Routledge,1989) and Kenneth Baugh, Jr.'s The Methodology of Herbert Blumer: Critical Interpretation and Repair (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), with the addition of book reviews from the American Journal of Sociology compiled by the Mead Project.
- "Theory of Social Revolutions." Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Missouri (1922)
- "Review of The Individual and the Social Order by Joseph A. Leighton." American Journal of Sociology 32 (1927): 665-666.
- "Review of Mind and Personality: An Essay in Psychology and Philosophy by William Brown." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1927): 309.
- "Review of Science: The False Messiah by C. E. Ayres." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1927): 311-312.
- "Review of Seven Seals of Science by Joseph Mayer." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1927): 322.
- "Review of The Social Basis of Consciousness: A Study in Organic Psychology Based on a Synthetic and Social Concept of Neurones by Trigant Burrows." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1928): 822-824.
- "Review of Principles of Abnormal Psychology by Edmund S. Conklin." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1928): 830-841.
- "Method in Social Psychology." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1928).
- "Review of Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1928): 391-393.
- "Review of Sex and Repression in Savage Society by Bronislaw Malinowski." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1928): 393-394.
- "Review of The Symbolic Process and Its Integration in Children: A Study in Social Psychology by John F. Markey." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1929): 927-928.
- "Review of The Scientific Habit of Thought by Frederick Barry." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1929): 935.
- "Review of Psychology and the Soldier by F. C. Bartlett." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1929): 944.
- "Review of The Psychology of Character, with a Survey of Temperment by A. A. Roback." American Journal of Sociology 33 (1929): 1001-1003.
- "Review of Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex by Pavlow." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1929): 1189-91.
- "Review of The Psychology of Personality by English Bagby." American Journal of Sociology 34 (1929): 1204-5.
- "Review of Economics of Fashion by Paul N. Nystrom." American Journal of Sociology 35 (1929): 154.
- "Review of The Pueblo Potter: A Study of Creative Imagination in Primitive Art by Ruth L. Bunzel." American Journal of Sociology 35 (1930): 663-664.
- "Review of Feelings and Emotions: The Wittenberg Symposium edited by Martin L. Reymert." American Journal of Sociology 35 (1930): 855-856.
- "Review of Studies of Savages and Sex by Ernest Crawley." American Journal of Sociology 35 (1930): 860-861.
- "Review of Social Research by George A. Lundberg, Research in the Social Sciences by Wilson Gee, and An Introduction to Social Research by Howard W. Odum and Katharine Jocher." American Journal of Sociology 35 (1930): 1101-1111.
- "Review of The Child's Conception of the World by Jean Piaget." American Journal of Sociology 36 (1930): 150-151.
- "Review of The Soul of the Primitive by Lucien Levy-Bruhl." American Journal of Sociology 36 (1930): 151-152.
- "Review of A History of Science by William Dampier-Whetham." American Journal of Sociology 36 (1930): 161-162.
- "Science without concepts." American Journal of Sociology 36 (1931): 515-533.
- "Review of An Anthology of Modern Philosophy by Daniel Robinson." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1931): 170.
- "Review of Readings in Psychology by Ray Holder Wheeler." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1931): 170.
- "Review of Social Psychology by Kimball Young, Social Psychology by Joseph K. Folsom, and Social Psychology by E.T. Krueger and Walter C. Reckless." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 661-666.
- "Review of The Adventure of Science by Benjamin Ginzburg, The History of Science and the New Humanism by George Sarton, Science and First Principles by F. S. C. Northrop, The Logic of Science by Harold R. Smart, Number: the Language of Science and Studies in the Literature of Science by Julian M. Drachman. American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 666-668.
- "Review of Possession: Demonical and Other by T.K. Oesterreich." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 676.
- "Review of The Half-way Sun: Life Among the Head-hunters of the Phillipines by R.F. Barton." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 691.
- "Review of The Theatre by Sheldon Cheney." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 692.
- "Review of Censorship of the Theatre and Moving Pictures compiled by Lamar Beman." American Journal of Sociology 37 1932 : 693.
- "Review of General Psychology for Professional Students by A. R. Gilliland, John Morgan and S.N. Stevens." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 693-694.
- "Review of Men's Wear Merchandizing by Kenneth Dameron." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 694
- "Review of The Book of My Life by Jerome Cardan." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 694.
- "Review of An Introduction to Human Problems by Harold Benjamin." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 822-823.
- "Review of A history of Psychology in Autobiography by Carl Murchison." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 825.
- "Review of Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena by Edward B. Titchener." American Journal of Sociology 37 (1932): 825-826.
- Movies and Conduct. New York: Macmillan (1933).
- Movies, Delinquency, and Crime. New York: Macmillan (1933). [with Philip M. Hauser]
- "Review of Phyloanalysis by William Galt." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 539.
- "Review of Studies in Expressive Movement by Gordon Allport and Philip E. Vernon." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 540.
- "Review of The Wild Boy of Aveyron by Jean-Marc-Gaspar Itard." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 540-541.
- "Review of The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World by Everett Dean Martin." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 541.
- "Review of Personality, Many in One by James Winfred Bridges." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935):705.
- "Review of The Energies of Men by William McDougall." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 705.
- "Review of The New World Order by F.S. Marvin." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 705.
- "Review of Man as Psychology Sees Him by Edward S. Robinson." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 707.
- "Review of An Elementary Psychology of the Abnormal by W. B. Pillsbury." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 707.
- "Review of Foundations of Abnormal Psychology by Fred A.Moss and Thelma Hunt." American Journal of Sociology 40 (1935): 708.
- "Review of Human Personality and the Environment by Charles M. Campbell." American Journal of Sociology 41 (1935): 274-275.
- "Social attitudes and non-symbolic interaction." Journal of Educational Psychology 9 (1936): 515-523.
- "Social psychology." In Emerson P. Schmidt (ed.), Man and Society. New York: Prentice-Hall, (1937): 144-198.
- "Review of Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary by Allen Walker Read." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1936): 434-435.
- "Review of Research: The Pathfinder of Science and Industry by T. A. Boyd." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1936): 453.
- "Review of Trail-Blazers of Science by Martin Gumpert." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1936): 454.
- "Review of Sanity First: The Art of Sensible Living by Joseph Jastrow." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1937): 608.
- "Review of Solving Personal Problems by Harrison Elliott and Grace Lorecks Elliott." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1937): 609.
- "Social Disorganization and Individual Disorganization." American Journal of Sociology 42 (1937): 871-877.
- "Review of Handbook of Social Psychology edited by Carl Murchison. American Journal of Sociology 43 (1937): 186.
- "Review of American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow edited by Horace M. Kallen and Sidney Hook." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1937): 188.
- "Review of The Evolution of Modern Psychology by Richard Muller-Freienfels." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1937): 355-356.
- "Review of A Philosophy of Science by Philip Eichler." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1937): 359-359.
- "Review of Self Consciousness Self-treated by A. A. Roback. American Journal of Sociology 43 (1937): 507.
- "Review of The Natural History of the Mind by A. D. Ritchie." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 661.
- "Review of Theory and Practiceof Psychiatry by William S. Sadler." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 661-662.
- "Review of The Mind of Man: The Story of Man's Conquest of Mental Illness by Walter Bromberg." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 662.
- "Review of Practical Aspects of Psychoanalysis by L. S. Kubie and Psychoanalysis Explained by Dorothy R. Blitzsten." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 663.
- "Review of Introduction to Social Research by Emory S. Bogardus." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 676.
- "Review of The Elements of Research by Frederick L. Whitney." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 677.
- "Review of Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-car Bertha. As told to Dr. Ben Reitman." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 679-680.
- "Review of Handicrafts of the Southern Highlanders by Allen H. Eaton." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 682.
- "Review of What It Means to Grow Up by Fritz Kunkel." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 687.
- "Review of Pareto's General Sociology by Lawrence Henderson." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1015.
- "Review of TheFields and Methods of Sociology by L. L. Bernard." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1015-1016.
- "Review of A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries by A. Wolf." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1021-1022.
- "Review of Wish and Wisdom by Joseph Jastrow." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1022.
- "Review of May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day-Survey edited by Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1032-1033.
- "Review of Science and Social Needs by Julian Huxley." American Journal of Sociology 43 (1938): 1038.
- "Review of Feeling and Emotion by H.M. Gardiner, Ruth C. Metcalfand John G. Beebe-Center." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 165.
- "Review of Mental Hygiene and Education by Mandel Sherman." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 175.
- "Review of The Psychology of Dealing with People by Wendell White." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 175-176.
- "Review of A Reference Guide to the Study of Public Opinion by Harwood L.Childs." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 309.
- "Review of The Psychology of the Audience by H.L. Hollingworth." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 309.
- "Review of The Psychology of Wants, Interests and Attitudes by Edward L. Thorndike." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 311.
- "Review of The First Russian Revolution, 1825 by Anatole G. Mazour." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 317.
- "Review of Legends of the Spanish Southwest by Cleve Hallenbeck and Juanita H.Williams." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 331.
- "Review of Mountains of the Moon by Patrick M.Synge." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1938): 331.
- Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences: I. An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. New York: Social Science Research Council (1939).
- "Review of Manual of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene by Aaron J. Rosanoff." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1939): 767-768.
- "Review of Psychology and Life by Floyd L. Ruch." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1939): 769.
- "Review of Behaviorism at Twenty-five by A. A. Roback." American Journal of Sociology 44 (1939): 769.
- "Review of The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 by William Henry Chamberlain." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 149.
- "Review of Vienna: The Image of a Culture in Decline by Edward Crankshaw." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 155.
- "Review of Cities of Sin by Hendrik de Leeuw." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 155.
- "Review of Islam in the World by Zaki Ali." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 500.
- "Review of The Conquest of Violence by Bart DeLigt." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 500.
- "Review of The Science of Human Behavior by Wallace Wait." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 501.
- "Review of From Hoop Skirts to Nudity by Carrie A. Hall." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 500.
- "The problem of the concept in social psychology." American Journal of Sociology 45 (1940): 707-719.
- "Review of America at the Movies by Margaret Farrand Thorpe." American Journal of Sociology 46 (1940): 415-416.
- "Review of The Study of Society by F. C. Bartlett, M. Ginsberg, E.J. Lindgren, and R.H. Thouless." American Journal of Sociology 46 (1940): 416.
- "Review of The Great Hatred by Maurice Samuel." American Journal of Sociology 47 (1941): 236.
- "Review of Current Psychologies by Albert J. Levine." American Journal of Sociology 47 (1942): 649.
- "Comment on "Operational Definitions in the Social Sciences" by George Lundberg." American Journal of Sociology 47 (1942): 743-745.
- "Review of A Comparative Study of Religious Cult Behavior among Negroes with Special Reference to Emotional Group Conditioning Factors by Raymond Julius Jones." American Journal of Sociology 48 (1942): 295.
- "Review of Faiths that Healed by Ralph H. Major." American Journal of Sociology 48 (1942): 298.
- "Review of Psychological Effects of War by R.D. Gillespie." American Journal of Sociology 48 (1942): 427.
- "Review of Blood on the Rising Sun by Douglas G. Haring." American Journal of Sociology 49 (1943): 283.
- "Morale." In William F. Ogburn (ed.), American Society in Wartime. Chicago: Chicago University Press, (1943) pp. 207-231.
- "Sociological theory in industrial relations." American Sociological Review 12 (1947): 271-278.
- "Public opinion and public opinion polling." American Sociological Review 13 (1948): 542-554.
- "Review of Personality: In Nature, Society and Culture by Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry Murray. American Sociological Review 14 (1949): 563-565.
- "Comment on "Morale: Certain Theoretical Implications of Data in The American Soldier" by Zentner." American Sociological Review 16 (1951): 308-309.
- "Review of The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics by Philip Selznick." American Sociological Review 17 (1952):630-631.
- "Review of Man, Mutable and Immutable: The Fundamental Structure of Social Life by Kurt Reizler." American Journal of Sociology 57 (1952): 598-600.
- "In Memoriam: Louis Wirth, 1897-1952" American Journal of Sociology 58 (1952): 69.
- "Psychological import of the human group." In Muzafer Sherif and M. O. Wilson (eds.), Group Relations at the Crossroads. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1954) pp. 185-202.
- "What is wrong with social theory?" American Sociological Review 19 (1954): 3-10.
- "Social structure and power conflict." In A. Kornhauser, R. Dubin, and A. Ross(eds.), Industrial Conflict. New York: McGraw Hill,(1954) pp. 232-239.
- "Attitudes and the social act." Social Problems 3 (1955): 59-65.
- "Reflections on theory of race relations." In Andrew W. Lind (ed.), Race Relations in World Perspective. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (1955), pp. 3-21.
- "Sociological Analysis and the 'Variable'." American Sociological Review 21 (1956): 683- 690.
- "Social Science and the Desegregation Process." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 304, (1956): 137-143.
- The Rationale of Labor-Management Relations. Rio Piedras: University of Puerto Rico (1958)
- "The Study of Urbanization and Industrialization." Boletin de Centro Latin-Americano de Pesquisas de Ciencias Sociais 2 (1959): 17-34.
- "Collective behavior." In Joseph B. Gittler (ed.), Review of Sociology: Analysis of a Decade. New York: John Wiley (1959): 127-158.
- "Suggestions for the study of mass-media effects." In Eugene Burdick and Arthur J. Brodbeck (eds.), American Voting Behavior. Glencoe, III.: Free Press (1959): 197-208.
- "Early industrialization and the laboring class." Sociological Quarterly I (1960): 5-14.
- "Society as Symbolic Interaction." In Arnold Rose (ed.), Human Behavior and Social Processes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1963): 179192.
- "Introduction." In Samuel K. Weinberg, Incest Behavior. New York: Citadel Press (1963).
- "Industrialization and the traditional order." Sociology and Social Research 48 (1964): 129138.
- "Industrialization and race relations." In Guy Hunter (ed.), Industrialization and Race Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1965): 220253.
- "The future of the color line." In John Mckinney and Edgar T. Thompson (eds.), The South in Continuity and Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press (1965).
- "Sociological implications of the thought of George Herbert Mead." American Journal of Sociology 71 (1966): 535548.
- "Reply to Bales." American Journal of Sociology 71 (1966): 547-548.
- "The idea of social development." In Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. II. St Louis: Social Science Institute, Washington University, (1966): 3
- "Foreword." In Severyn T. Bruyn, The Human Perspective in Sociology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (1966).
- "Reply to Woefel, Stone and Farberman." American Journal of Sociology 72 (1967): 411-412,
- "Ernest W. Burgess 1886-1966," American Sociologist 2 (1967): 163-164.
- "Threats from agency-determined research: The case of Camelot." In Irving Louis Horowitz (ed.), The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (1967): 153-174.
- "Reply to Woelfel, Stone, and Farberman." American Journal of Sociology 72 (1967): 411-412.
- "Fashion: From class differentiation to collective selection." Sociological Quarterly 10 (1969): 275291.
- Symbolic Interactionism. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (1969).
- Review of W.I. Thomas on Social Organization and Social Personality edited by Morris Janowitz." American Sociological Review 35 (1970): 550-551.
- "Social problems as collective behavior." Social Problems 18 (1971): 298306.
- "Action vs. interaction." Society 9 (1973): 5053.
- "A Note on Symbolic Interactionism: reply to Huber." American Sociological Review 38 (1973): 797-798.
- "Symbolic Interpretation and the idea of Social System." Revue Internationale de Sociologie 11 (1975): 1-12.
- "Parsons as a Symbolic Interactionist: Exchange on Turner." Sociological Inquiry 45 (1975): 59-65.
- "A tri-fold test of all sociological approaches." Wisconsin Sociologist 13 (1976): 107.
- "Comment on Lewis "The classic American pragmatists as forerunners to symbolic interactionism'." Sociological Quarterly 18 (1977): 2859.
- "Social unrest and collective protest." In Norman K. Denzin (ed.), Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. I. (1978): 154.
- "Comments on George Herbert Mead and the Chicago Tradition of Sociology." Symbolic Interaction 2 (1979): 21-2.
- "Mead and Blumer: The convergent methodological perspectives of social behaviorism and symbolic interactionism." American Sociological Review 45 (1980): 409419.
- "Theories of Race and Social Action." (with Troy Duster) In Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism. Paris: Unesco 1980.
- "Foreword." In Ericksen, E. Gordon, The Territorial Experience: Human Ecology as Symbolic Interaction Austin: University of Texas 1980.
- "Review of George Herbert Mead: Self, Language and the World by David L. Miller." American Journal of Sociology 86 (1981): 902-904.
- "George Herbert Mead." Pp. in B. Rhea, The Future of the Sociological Classics. London: Allen & Unwin (1982).
- "Going Astray with a logical scheme: review of Lewis and Smith." Symbolic Interaction 6 (1983): 127-137.
- Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change: A Critical Analysis (edited by David Maines and Thomas Morrione). New York: Aldine de Gruyter (1990).
- "Private Monograph on Movies and Sex." Pp 281-301 in Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy. New York: Cambridge University 1996.
- "Foreword." In Athens, Lonnie H. Violent Criminal Acts and actors revisited. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1997.