Doctoral Dissertations in Sociology granted by the University of Chicago 1895 – 1952
The first posted version of this information was drawn from from Appendix 1 of Richard Lee Smith's 1977 doctoral dissertation entitled George Herbert Mead and Sociology: The Chicago Years. In 2005, we acquired a copy of Lee Harvey's Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology (1987), which provided an expanded list. as Appendix 5, p. 284-293. We have omitted Julia Jessie Taft from the list. Examination of the published form of the 1913 dissertation identified it as a Philosophy dissertation, where Smith had placed it. Entries in red prior to 1936 did not appear on Smith's list.
Year | Student | Dissertation title |
1895 | Jerome Hall Raymond | American Municipal Government. |
Frederic William Sanders | An Exposition in Outline of the Relation of Certain Economic Principles to Social Readjustment | |
1896 | William Isaac Thomas | A Difference in the Metabolism of the Sexes. |
George Edgar Vincent | The Social Mind and Education | |
1897 | David Prescott Barrows | The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuila Indians of Southern California |
Hanna Belle Clark | The Public Schools of Chicago: A Sociological Study. | |
Merton Leland Miller | A Preliminary Study of the Pueblos of Taos, New Mexico. | |
1898 | Ira Woods Howerth | The Social Aim in Education. |
1899 | Charles Abram Ellwood | Some Prolegomena to Social Psychology |
William Clark Gordon | The Social Ideals of Alfred Tennyson as Related to His Time. | |
1900 | Jacob Dorsey Forrest | The Development of Western Civilization. |
Annie Marion MacLean | The Acadian Element in the Population of Nova Scotia. | |
1901 | Charles Joseph Bushnell | The Social Problem at the Chicago Stock Yards. |
John Morris Gillette | Culture Agencies of a Typical Manufacturing Group: South Chicago. | |
1902 | Edward Cary Hayes | Sociological Construction Lines. |
1903 | Amy Hewes | The Part of Invention in the Social Process. |
F. C. Cressey | The Church and the Young Man | |
1904 | Romanzo Colfax Adams | The Nature of the Social Unity. (aka A Technique for Sociological Research) |
1905 | Thomas James Riley | A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago. |
Herbert Easton Fleming | Magazines of a Market-Metropolis: Being a History of the Literary Periodicals and Literary Interests of Chicago. (aka Some Phases of the Production and Consumption of Literature in Chicago) | |
R.R. Perkins | The Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents | |
A.J. Steelman | Charities for Children in the City of Mexico | |
1906 | Eben Mumford | The Origins of Leadership. |
Mabel Carter Rhoades | A Case Study of Delinquent Boys in the Juvenile Court of Chicago. | |
Erville Bartlett Woods, | Progress as a Sociological Concept. | |
1907 | Gustavus Walker Dyer, | Democracy in the South before the Civil War. |
Howard Woodhead | The Social Significance of the Physical Development of Cities. | |
1908 | Cecil Clare North | The Sociological Implications of Richard's Economics. |
1910 | Luther Lee Bernard, | The Transition to an Objective Standard of Social Control. |
Frances Fenton | The Influence of Newspaper Presentations Upon the Growth of Crime and other Anti-social Activity. | |
Hector MacPherson | Cooperative Credit Association in the Province of Quebec. | |
1911 | Emory Stephen Bogardus | "The Relation of Fatigue to Industrial Accidents. |
Samuel Nicholas Reep | The Organization of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of a Metropolitan Community. | |
1912 | Julius Temple House | "Purpose, the Variant of Theory." |
1913 | Ernest Watson Burgess | The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution |
Jesse Frederick Steiner | The Japanese Invasion: A study in the psychology of inter-racial contacts | |
Edwin Hardin Sutherland | Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies | |
1914 | Manuel Conrad Elmer | Social Surveys of Urban Communities. |
1915 | Earle Edward Eubank | A Study of Family Desertion |
1917 | Max Handman | The Beginnings of the Social Philosophy of Karl Marx |
1919 | Clarence Dan Blachley | The Treatment of the Problem of Capital and Labor in Social Study Courses in the Churches |
Kisaburo Kawabe | The Press and Politics in Japan | |
Stuart Alfred Queen | The Passing of the County Jail | |
Edward Byron Reuter | The Mulatto in the United States | |
Raleigh Webster Stone | The Origin of the Survey Movement | |
L.D. Weynard | A Study of Wage-payment to Prisoners As A Penal Method | |
1920 | Walter Blaine Bodenhafer | The Comparative Role of the Group Concepts in Ward's "Dynamic Sociology" and Contemporary American Sociology |
Mollie Ray Carroll | Labor and Politics: The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor Toward Legislation and Politics | |
Jacob Horak | Assimilation of the Czechs in Chicago | |
Howard Eikenberry Jensen | The Rise of Religious Journalism in the United States | |
William Carlson Smith | The Ao Naga Tribe of Northeast India: A Study in Conflict and Fusion of Cultures | |
1921 | Roderick Duncan McKenzie | The Neighborhood: A Study of Local Life in the City of Columbus, Ohio. |
Clarence Elmer Rainwater | The Play Movement in the United States | |
Samuel Caleb Ratcliffe | Pauper Law and Institutions in Illinois | |
Dwight Sanderson | The Rural Community: A Social Unit | |
1922 | Martin Hayes Bickham | The Scientific Antecedents of the Sociology of Auguste Comte |
Frederick German Detweiler | The Negro Press in the United States | |
George S. H. Rossouw | Nationalism and Language: An Introduction to the Sociology of Nationalism and Internationalism | |
C.A. Dawson | The Social Nature of Knowledge | |
1923 | Norman Sylvester Hayner | The Hotel: The Sociology of Hotel Life |
1924 | Kenneth Edwin Barnhart | The Evolution of Social Consciousness in Methodism |
Ernst Theodore Hiller | The Strike: A Study in Collective Action | |
Floyd Nelson House | Industrial Morale: An Essay in the Sociology of Industrial Group Control | |
Ernest Russell Mowrer | Family Disorganization | |
Maurice Thomas Price | The Analysis of Christian Propaganda in Race Contact: The Reactions of 'Non-Christian' Peoples to the Protestant Missionary Enterprise from the Standpoint of Individual and Group Behavior | |
Erle Fiske Young | Race Prejudice with Particular Reference to the American Negro | |
1925 | William Andrew Daniel | Negro Theological Seminary Survey |
Fay Berger Karpf | American Social Psychology and its European Background | |
Ernst Theodor Krueger | Autobiographical Documents and Personality | |
Walter Cade Reckless | The Natural History of Vice Areas in Chicago | |
Pieter Kornelis Roest | White Magic and its Theories | |
Tsi Chang Wan | The Youth Movement in China | |
1926 | Harmon Opdike DeGraff | A Study of the Juvenile Court of Iowa with Special Reference to Des Moines |
Cornelius Cicero Janzen | A Social Study of the Mennonite Settlement in the Counties of Marion, McPherson, Harvey, Reno and Butler, Kansas. | |
Ruth Shonle | Suicide — A Study in Personal Disorganization | |
Eyler Newton Simpson | Wishes: A Study in Social Psychology | |
Frederic Milton Thrasher | The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago | |
Louis Wirth | The Ghetto: A Study in Isolation | |
1927 | Ernest Hugh Shideler | The Chain Store: A Study of the Ecological Organization of a Modern City |
Leslie A. White | Medicine Societies of the Southwest | |
1928 | Herbert George Blumer | Method in Social Psychology |
Charlotte Day Gower | The Supernatural Patron in Sicilian Life | |
Everett Cherrington Hughes | A Study of a Secular Institution: The Chicago Real Estate Board | |
Tadao Kawamura | The Class Conflict in Japan as Affected by the Expansion of Japanese Industry and Trade | |
Franc Lewis McCluer | Living Conditions among Wage-Earning Families in Forty-one Blocks in Chicago (1923). | |
John Henry Mueller | The Automobile: A Sociological Study | |
Robert Redfield | A Plan for the Study of Tepoztlan, Morelos | |
Ching Chao Wu | Chinatowns: A Study of Symbiosis and Assimilation | |
1929 | Samuel Clarence Kincheloe | The Prophet: A Study of the Sociology of Leadership |
Augustus Frederick Kuhlman | Crime and Punishment in Missouri: A Study of the Social Forces in the Trial and Error Process of Penal Reform | |
Thomas Carson McCormick | Rural Unrest: A Sociological Investigation of the Rural Movement in the United States | |
Martin Henry Neumeyer | Conscience: A Socio-psychological Study | |
1930 | Howard Paul Becker | Ionia and Athens: Studies in Secularization |
William Oscar Brown | Race Prejudice: A Sociological Study | |
Paul Frederick Cressey | The Succession of Cultural Groups in the City of Chicago | |
Carl M. Rosenquist | The Swedes of Texas | |
Everett Verner Stonequist | The Marginal Man: A Study in the Subjective Aspects of Cultural Conflict | |
Stouffer, Samuel Andres | An Experimental Comparison of Statistical and Case History Methods of Attitude Research | |
Walter Thompson Watson | Division of Labor: A Study in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Work Satisfaction | |
E. B. Winston | A Statistical Study of Mental Disease | |
1931 | Carroll DeWitt Clark | News: A Sociological Study |
John Dollard | The Changing Functions of the American Family | |
D. Russell (listed as MA by Hauser) |
The Roadhouse: A Study of Commercialized Amusements in the Environs of Chicago | |
Robert E Lee Faris | An Ecological Study of Insanity in the City | |
Edward Franklin Frazier | The Negro Family in Chicago | |
Ruth Pearson Koshuk | A Comparative Study of Social Contacts involving Play Material in Four Pre-school Groups | |
Andrew William Lind | Economic Succession and Racial Invasion in Hawaii | |
James Alfred Quinn | Sublimation: A Critical, Illustrative Study of Social Process | |
1932 | Vivien Marie Palmer | The Primary Settlement as a Unit of Urban Growth and Organization |
Carl William Strow | The Human Resources of a Community | |
Edgar Tristam Thompson | The Plantation | |
Edward Jerome Webster | Reform: A Sociological Study | |
1933 | Albert Bailie Blumenthal | A Sociological Study of a Small Town |
Leonard Slater Cottrell, Jr. | The Reliability and Validity of a Marriage Study Schedule | |
1934 | Bertram Wilbur Doyle | The Etiquette of Race Relations in the South |
Edward Wilkerson Montgomery | The Urbanization of Rural Recreation | |
Ching-Yeh Yen | Crime in Relation to Social Change in China | |
1935 | Marion Wesley Roper | The City and the Primary Group |
Courtlandt Churchill VanVechten | A Study of Success and Failure of One Thousand Delinquents Committed to a Boys' Republic | |
1936 | R.O. Lang | The Relation of Educational Status to Economic Status in the City of Chicago, by Census Tract, 1934. |
M.N. Joslyn | Profit Sharing for Old-Age Security: A Case Study with a General Approach. | |
1937 | J.P. Reed | Kokutai: A Study of Certain Sacred and Secular Aspects of Japanese Nationalism. |
A.M. Myhrman | The Swedish Nationality Movement in Finland | |
F.E. Merrill | The Chicago Stock Exchange | |
A.J. Moore | Citywide Internal Migration: An Analysis of the 1930 Population of Stockholm Born in Vastmanland County, Sweden. | |
Alfred R. Lindesmith | The Nature of Opiate Addiction | |
Helen M. Hughes | The Human Interest Story: A Study of Popular Literature | |
B. Dai | Opium Addiction in Chicago | |
W.P. Carter | The Only Child in the Family: A Comparison with Other Order of Birth | |
1938 | C.W. Schoeder | Divorce in a City of 100,000 Population |
C. Schettler | Problems of Personality Traits with Emphasis Upon the Problem of Mutability | |
P.M. Lejins | The Concept of Imitation and Imitation as a Factor in Crime | |
Philip M. Hauser | Differential Fertility, Mortality and New Reproduction | |
C. Glick | The Chinese Migrant in Hawaii | |
O.C. Cox | Factors Affecting the Marital Status of Negroes in the United States | |
1939 | E.A. Reeden | Embezzlement: A Study of One Kind of Criminal Behavior with Prediction Tables Based on Fidelity Insurance Records |
D.R. Pierson | A Study of Racial and Cultural Adjustment in Bahia, Brazil | |
1940 | V.E. Daniel | Ritual in Chicago's South Side Churches for Negroes |
S.M. Strong | The Social Type Method: Social Types in the Negro Community in Chicago | |
I. Noss | Resistance to Social Innovations as Found in the Literature Regarding Innovations which have Proved Successful | |
W.A. Hillman | Urbanization and the Organization of Welfare Activities in the Metropolitan Community of Chicago | |
1941 | M. Schauffler | The Suburbs of Cleveland: A Field Study of the Metropolitan District Outside the Administrative Area of the City |
E.S. Johnson | The Evolution of the Chicago Central Business District | |
A.J. Jaffe | Urbanization and Fertility | |
Gittler, J.B. | Society's Adjustment to a Mechanical and Social Invention: A Study in Social Change | |
H.W. Dunham | The Character of the Interrelationship of Crime and Schizophrenia | |
L.C. Devinney | Some Relationships Between Educational Achievement and Social Stratification | |
M.B. Clinard | Crime and the Process of Urbanization: A Study of Culture Conflict | |
1942 | R.F. Winch | Social Personality Characteristics of Courtship Revealed in Men |
S.K. Weinberg | Incest Behavior and Family Organization | |
P. Wallin | The Characteristics of Participants in a Social Psychological Study | |
E.D. Johns | Chicago's Newspapers and the News: A Study of Public Communication in a Metropolis | |
H. Goldhammer | Some Factors Affecting Participation in Voluntary Associations | |
E.J. Baur | Voluntary Control in the Advertising Industry | |
C.S. Alexander | Antipathy and Prejudice: A Study of the Distinctions Between these Two Phenomena | |
1943 | William Foote Whyte | Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum |
M.D. Oyler | Fertility and Migration of Kentucky Population, 1920-1940, as Related to Communication, Income and Education | |
C.B. Rose | Worker's Education, The Labor Movement, and the Intellectuals in the United States | |
1944 | J.N. Symons | Utah Residence Types and Criminal Behavior |
Anselm L. Strauss | A Study of Three Psychological Factors Affecting the Choice of a Mate in Marriage | |
C.H. Parrish | The Significance of Color in the Negro Community | |
O. Hall | The Informal Organization of Medical Practice: Case Study of a Profession | |
1945 | P.S. Wu | The Social Characteristics of Increasing, Stable, and Decreasing Cities |
F. Weller | The Sect in Transition | |
H.J. Walker | Changes in Race Accommodation in a Southern City. | |
1946 | A.F. Whitridge | Art in Chicago |
J. Sarna | The Social Categories of Friendship | |
A.M. Rose | Living Arrangements of Unattached Persons in American Cities | |
F. LaViolette | Americans of Japanese Ancestry: A Study of Assimilation in the American Community | |
M.C. Hill | The All-Negro Society | |
1947 | A.W. Rose | A Socio-Psychological Analysis of the Ambition Patterns of a Sample of Industrial Workers |
V. Miller | The Areal Distribution of Tax Delinquency in Chicago and Its Relationship to Certain Housing and Social Characteristics | |
R. H. Lee | Growth and Decline of Chinese Communities in the Rocky Mountain Region | |
R. Freedman | Recent Migration to Chicago | |
E.G. Ericksen | Protest Society: Social Irrationality in the Extraterritorial One-sex Company Town | |
R. Dubin | The Grievance Process: A Study in Union-Management Relations | |
R.E. Clark | The Relationship of Occupation and Various Psychoses | |
P.J. Campisi | A Scale for the Measurement of Acculturation | |
G.W. Breese | The Daytime Population of the Central Business District of Chicago | |
R. Bendix | The Public Servant in a Democracy | |
1948 | Guy E. Swanson | Emotional Disturbance and Juvenile Delinquency |
Bernard .N. Meltzer | Preprofessional Career and Early Publication as Factors in the Differential Productivity of Social Scientists | |
O. Klapp | The Hero as Social Type | |
Morris Janowitz | Mobility, Subjective Deprivation and Ethnic Hostility | |
L. Cohen | Factors Associated with Home Ownership in Twenty-Two Metropolitan Districts, 1940 | |
J. Burnett | The Problem of Community Instability in East Central Alberta | |
C.E. Bowerman | The Measurement of Areas of Adjustment in Marriage | |
H.D. Duncan | Chicago as a Literary Center: Social Factors Influencing Chicago Literary Institutions, 1895 to 1920 | |
R. H. Turner | Some Factors in the Differential Position of Whites and Negroes in the Labor Force of the United States in 1940 | |
Tomaso Shibutani | The Circulation of Rumors as a Form of Collective Behavior | |
E. Rosenthal | The Jewish Population of Chicago, Illinois: Size and Distribution as Derived from Voter's list. | |
E. I-H Ni | Social Characteristics of the Chinese Population: A Study of the Population Structure and Urbanization of a Metropolitan Community | |
D.S. Milne | Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Services in Wartime California | |
1949 | V.E. Faw | Vocational Interests of Chicago Negro and White High School Junior and Senior Boys |
E.A. Willkening | Acceptance of Certain Agricultural Programs and Practices in a Piedmont Community of North Carolina | |
J.L. Thomas | Some of the Factors Involved in the Breakdown of Catholic Marriage | |
E. Shanas | The Personal Adjustment of Recipients of Old Age Assistance: With Special Consideration of the Methodology of Questionnaire Studies of Older People | |
E. Gross | Informal Relations and the Social Organization of Work in an Industrial Office | |
W.L.J. Dee | The Social Effects of a Public Housing Project on the Immediate Community | |
E. Sheldon | The Chicago Labor Force, 1910-1949 | |
W.H. Hale | The Career Development of the Negro Lawyer in Chicago | |
P. Klassen | Internal Migration in Relation to Literacy and Language | |
G.A. Lunday | A Study of Parole Prediction | |
J. Clausen | Soldiers' Plans and the Prediction of the Post-Separation Activities of Veterans | |
T.C. Cothran | Negro Stereotyped Conceptions of White People | |
R.C. Stone | Vertical Mobility and Ideology: A Study of White Collar Workers | |
H.L. Smith | The Sociological Study of Hospitals | |
C.W. Nelson | Development and Evaluation of a Leadership Attitude Scale for Foremen | |
H. Bonner | Paranoia and Paranoid Condition: A Social Psychological Study of Paranoid Personality | |
Otis D. Duncan | An Examination of the Problem of Optimum City Size | |
1950 | D. Wray | The Forman and Managerial Functions |
J.J. Williams | The Professional Status of Women Physicians | |
A.J. Reiss | The Accuracy, Efficiency and Validity of a Prediction Instrument | |
J.E. McKeown | The Dynamics of the Childhood Families of Small Highly Selected Groups of Male and Female Schizophrenics, Behavior Problems and Normals | |
L.M. Killian | Southern White Laborers in Chicago's West Side | |
B.L. Hormann | Extinction and Survival: A Study of the Reaction of Aboriginal Populations to European Expansion | |
M Dalton | A Study of Informal Organization among the Managers of an Industrial Union | |
N.G. Ramsy | Recent Trends in Occupational Mobility | |
D. Reitzes | Collective Factors in Race Relations | |
O.W. Quinn | Racial Attitude and the Conforming Personality | |
S. Marcson | The Prediction of Intermarriage | |
E.H. Fitchett | The Free Negro in Charleston South Carolina | |
A.J. Mayer | Differentials in Length of Life, City of Chicago: 1880-1940 | |
F.C. Ikle | The Impact of War Upon the Spacing of Urban Population | |
F. B. Lindstrom | The Military Mind and the Soldier Press | |
A.B. Motz | Conceptions of Martial Roles in Transition | |
J. Rowenstein | Small-Town Party Politics | |
A.D. Ross | Ethnic Relations and Social Structure: A Study of the Invasion of French-Speaking Canadians into an English Canadian District | |
J.F. Schmidt | Patterns of Poor Adjustment in Persons of Later Maturity | |
Y-C. Lu | A Study of Dominant, Equalitarian and Submissive Roles in Marriage | |
S-C. Lee | Social Implications of Farm Tenancy in China | |
A.F. Henry | The Nature of the Relation between Suicide and the Business Cycle | |
W.H. Harlan | Isolation and Conduct in Later Life: Study of Four Hundred and Sixty-Four Chicagoans Sixty to Ninety-five | |
N. Goldman | The Differential Selection of Juvenile Offenders for Court Appearances | |
D.W. Calhoun | The Reception of Marxian Sociological Theory by American Academic Sociologists | |
L. Bogart | The Comic Strips and their Adult Readers: A Study of Male Workers in a New York City Neighborhood | |
S. A. Star | Interracial Tension in Two Areas of Chicago: An Exploratory Approach to the Measurement of Interracial Tension | |
A.B. Stafford | Trends of Invention in Material Culture: A Statistical Study of the Class-wise Distribution of Inventive Effort in the United States as Determined by Patents Granted During the Period 1914-1945 | |
J-S. Pan | A Comparison of the Factors in the Personal Adjustment of Old People in the Protestant Church Homes for the Aged and Old People Living Outside of Institutions | |
F. Miyamoto | The Career of Intergroup Tensions: A Study of the Collective Adjustments of Evacuees to Crises at the Tule Lake Relocation Center | |
1951 | C. King | Factors Making for Success or Failure in Marital Adjustment Among 466 Negro Couples in Southern City |
M. Schwartz | Social Interaction in a Disturbed Ward of a Mental Hospital | |
Howard S. Becker | Role and Career Problems of the Chicago Public School Teacher | |
W.A. Westley | The Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom and Morality | |
J.F. Short | An investigation of the Relation between Crime and Business Cycles | |
H.G. Lewis | The Social Life of Negro in a Southern Piedmont Town | |
E.M. Kitagawa | Differentials in Total and Marital Fertility, Chicago 1920-1940 | |
A.P. Hare | A Study of Interaction and Consensuses in Different Sized Discussion Groups | |
A.B. Jacobson | A Study of Evaluation of Nisei as Workers by Caucasian Employment Agency Managers and Employers of Nisei | |
M.L. Haimowitz | The Development and Change of Ethnic Hostility | |
F. Elkins | A Study of the Relationship between Popular Hero Type and Social Class | |
R. Ireland | The Aging Industrial Worker: Retirement Plans and Preparation with Some Reference to the Meaning of Work | |
1952 | N. Keyfitz | Urban Influence on Farm Family Size |
D. Blackiston | The Judge, the Defendant and Criminal Law Administration | |
G.F. Edwards | Occupational Mobility of a Selected Group of Negro Male Professionals | |
P. Benson | The Interest and Activities of Engaged and Married Couples in Relation to their Adjustment | |
A.J.A. Al-Tahir | The Arab Community in the Chicago Area: A comparative study of the Christian-Syrians and the Muslim Palestinians | |
D. Roy | Restriction of Output by Machine Operators in a Piecework Machine Shop | |
L. Reeder | Industrial Location in the Chicago Metropolitan Area with Special Reference to Population | |
J. London | Decision Making in a Local Union: A Case Study | |
E. Linn | The Correlation of Death Rates from Selected Causes with the Business Cycle, 1919-47 | |
E. Freidson | An Audience and Its Taste: A Study in Mass Communication | |
S. Dornbush | The Family in the Labor Force: A Study of Supplementary Workers in the U.S. 1940 | |
M. DePoister | Trends in Theological Beliefs Within Selected Denominations | |
R. Buckman | Interaction between Women's Clubs and Institutions | |
J. Winget | Teacher Inter-School Mobility Aspirations: Elementary Teachers, Chicago Public Schools System 1947-48 | |
E.K. Wilson | Community Participation in Policy Formulation | |
D.N. Solomon | Career Contingencies of Chicago Physicians | |
Y. Kimura | A Comparative Study of Collective Adjustment of the Idei, the First Generation Japanese, In Hawaii and in the Mainland, U.S. Since Pearl Harbor |