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Howard W. Odum. "History of Theory." In American Sociology: The Story of Sociology in the United States through 1950. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. (1951): 273-274.

 "History of Theory"
from American Sociology: The Story of Sociology in the United States through 1950

Howard W. Odum

This table reproduces information from Odum's history of sociology in the United States. Richard Lee Smith used this list in his survey of references to Mead in textbooks and monographs used in his dissertation and in American Sociology and Pragmatism (Lewis and Smith 1980).  The term "Identification" refers to the institution with which the authors were located at the time of publication.

Year	Title	Author	Identification
1915	Social Adaptation	L. M. Bristol	Florida
1922	History of Social Thought	E. S. Bogardus	SouthernCalifornia
1923	Development of Social Theory	J. P. Lichtenberger	Pennsylvania
1924	Sociology and Political Theory	H. E. Barnes	Smith
1927	American Masters of Social Science	H. W. Odum (ed.)	North Carolina
1928	Contemporary Sociological Theories	P. A. Sorokin	Minnesota, Harvard
1929	Trends in American Sociology	G. A. Lundberg, Read Bain, Nels Anderson	Washington, Miami, Chicago
1929	Range of Social Theory	F. N. House	Virginia
1936	Development of Sociology	F. N. House	Virginia
1938	Social Thought from Lore to Science	H. E. Barnes, Howard Becker	At large, Wisconsin
1938	History of Social Philosophy	C. A. Ellwood	Duke
1940	Contemporary Social Theory	H. E. Barnes, H. Becker, F. B. Becker	At large, Wisconsin
1943	Origins of American Sociology	L. L. Bernard, Jessie Bernard	Washington, Pennsylvania State
1945	Twentieth Century Sociology	Georges Gurvitch, Wilbert Moore	Paris, Princeton
1948	Introduction to History of Sociology	H. E. Barnes	At large
1948	Historical Sociology	H. E. Barnes	At large
1949	Essays in Sociological Theory	Talcott Parsons	Harvard
1949	Social Theory and Social Structure	R. K. Merton	Columbia
1950	Catholic Social Thought	Melvin J. Wilhams	Florida State

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