Guide to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Records,
1951-1955.

Collection Number: 14-25-2209

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M. Warren
Date completed:
April 1985
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, April 2004

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology records, 1951-1955.
Collection Number:
14-25-2209
Creator:
Cornell University. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology.
Quantity:
3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Records, reports, notes, interviews, correspondence.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records for a research training seminar and various other reports.
Language:
Collection material in English


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records of an interdepartmental research training seminar for the social sciences including proposals; reports; faculty and student notes; project data for an Elmira voting study, 1948; and interviews from a St. Joseph's Hospital, Elmira study, 1951. Also correspondence, research reports, and internal memoranda from the Digby, Nova Scotia, Stirling County Study conducted by Alexander Leighton and Garnet E. McCreary, 1952-1955

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University.
Leighton, Alexander.
Cornell University. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology.

Subjects:
Anthropology--Study and teaching.
Sociology--Study and teaching.
Sociology--Methodology.
Interviewing in sociology.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology records, #14-25-2209. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Series 1: Social Science Research Training Seminar
Series 2: Stirling County Study Records

CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Interdepartment research training seminar in social sciences
Includes training materials, outlines, interviews, evaluations; also, material related to Elmira Voting Study
Purpose of Course I; Skills to be Taught II
Box 1 Folder 1
Notes used in Concept of the Competent Field Worker
Box 1 Folder 2
Criteria for Selecting a Group
Box 1 Folder 3
How We Identify Ourselves
Box 1 Folder 4
Professional Ethics
Box 1 Folder 5
Field Worker Bias - St. Paul's Hospital, 1962
Box 1 Folder 6
Term Papers - Outline
Box 1 Folder 7
Appendix (Incomplete)
Box 1 Folder 8
Sociodrama - Social Growth
Box 1 Folder 9
Experience Gained in Teaching - Do's and Don'ts VI
Box 1 Folder 10
Table of Contents
Box 1 Folder 11
Purpose of Non-structured Interviewing and Observation
Box 1 Folder 12
Prelim Work on Field Research Training Program
Box 1 Folder 13
Term Paper by Edith M. Lentz
Box 1 Folder 14
Summary of Course Evaluations for W.F. Whyte
Box 1 Folder 15
Tabulations of Student Course - Assessments
Box 1 Folder 16
Evaluation of Seminar
Box 1 Folder 17
Administration and Organization of Course III Skills to be Taught
Box 1 Folder 18
Interview Evaluation - Form (by Informant)
Box 1 Folder 19
Interviewer Evaluation
Box 1 Folder 20
Course Assessment Sheet
Box 1 Folder 21
Background Information Questionnaire
Box 1 Folder 22
Student Questionnaire Forms given Fall, 1952
Box 1 Folder 23
Forms for Background Information on Students: Social Growth
Box 1 Folder 24
Final Evaluation: Field Notes, Field Interviews, Term Papers
Box 1 Folder 25
Rankings for Field Worker Skills
Box 1 Folder 26
Ratings and Rankings of All Recorded Interviews
Box 1 Folder 27
Socio-drama, Church Board Meeting
Box 1 Folder 28
Techniques for Teaching Interviewing Skills
Box 1 Folder 29
Photographs and Interviews
Box 1 Folder 30
Description of Interviewing, Observations and Hypothesis
Box 1 Folder 31
Diplomatic Relations
Box 1 Folder 32
Proposed Field Projects, Fall, 1952
Box 1 Folder 33
Teaching Arrangements for FMTM, Fall, 1952
Box 1 Folder 34
Sample Interviews - E. Lentz
Box 1 Folder 35
Field Relations
Box 1 Folder 36
Field Relations
Box 1 Folder 37
Offprints and Articles in Field Methods
Box 1 Folder 38
Recording Filed Data for the File
Box 1 Folder 39
Leighton on Observation
Box 1 Folder 40
A Pentecostal Church History
Box 1 Folder 41
Bronfenbrenner on Unstructured Interviewing
Box 1 Folder 42
Natural Observation
Box 1 Folder 43
Fred Mitchell Case
Box 1 Folder 44
Outline for Observer's Report - Springdale
Box 1 Folder 45
Set of Notes from SAR Seminar
Box 1 Folder 46
Interview Records, W.W.'s Class
Box 1 Folder 47
Interviews with Field Workers in Experience and Skills
Box 1 Folder 48
Non Verbal Expression, Bobby Halpern
Box 1 Folder 49
W.F. Whyte Spring Seminar in Interviewing, Steve's Notes
Box 1 Folder 50
Examples of Field Recording
Box 1 Folder 51
Meeting #1, Sept. 24, 1952
Box 1 Folder 52
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Oct. 8, 1952
Box 1 Folder 53
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Oct. 15, 1952
Box 1 Folder 54
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Oct. 22, 1952
Box 1 Folder 55
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Oct. 29, 1952
Box 1 Folder 56
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Nov. 5, 1952
Box 1 Folder 57
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Nov. 12, 1952
Box 1 Folder 58
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Nov. 19, 1952
Box 1 Folder 59
Content and Participation Class Meeting, Dec. 10, 1952
Box 1 Folder 60
Materials on Interviews, Dec. 3, 1952
Box 1 Folder 61
Student Interviews with Veterans, Dec. 17, 1962
Box 1 Folder 62
Revised Proposal, 1952-1953
Box 1 Folder 63
William F. Whyte - The Meaning of Industrial Work
Box 1 Folder 64
Devereux - Conceptual Framework
Box 1 Folder 65
Final Report of Faculty Seminar
Box 1 Folder 66
Purpose, Student Questions - Observations
Box 1 Folder 67
Reports - Core Training - Documents
Box 1 Folder 68
Class Meeting, Jan. 7, 1953
Box 1 Folder 69
Sub-committee Sharp
Box 1 Folder 70
Progress Report: Logic
Box 1 Folder 71
Progress Report: Documents
Box 1 Folder 72
Progress Report: Content Analysis
Box 1 Folder 73
Progress Report: Structured
Box 1 Folder 74
Progress Report: Experimental
Box 1 Folder 75
Progress Report: Unstructured
Box 1 Folder 76
Subject Matter
Box 1 Folder 77
Method
Box 1 Folder 78
Training
Box 1 Folder 79
Evaluative Comments
Box 1 Folder 80
Research Training Notes
Box 1 Folder 81
Research Training Seminar
Box 1 Folder 82
Course Material for Survey of Available Courses
Box 1 Folder 83
SSRC Cottrell on Research
Box 1 Folder 84
Seminar Surveys
Box 1 Folder 85
RKG: Notes on Research Training Needs
Box 1 Folder 86
Research Tarining Meetings, Draft of Proposal
Box 1 Folder 87
Survey of Research Courses
Box 1 Folder 88
Research Proposal
Box 1 Folder 89
Agenda, Oct. 1, 1951
Box 1 Folder 90
Summary, Oct. 15, 1951
Box 1 Folder 91
Summary, Oct. 22, 1951
Box 1 Folder 92
Research Training Seminars, Meetings #3-15, Nov. 1951-May 1952
Box 2 Folder 1-12
Correspondence and Memos
Box 2 Folder 13
Wisconsin Faculty Seminar, 1952
Box 2 Folder 14
Report of Sub-committee, MacLeoad
Box 2 Folder 15
Report of Subcommittee; Williams, Lambert
Box 2 Folder 16
Interviews for Book on Human Relations in a Hospital - St. Joseph's
Box 2 Folder 17
Interviews for Book on Human Relations in a Hospital - St. Joseph's
Box 2 Folder 18
Interviews - Claxton Hospital, 1953
Box 2 Folder 19
Elmira Voting Study, 1948
Box 2 Folder 20
Elmira Voting Study, Interviews, John Dean
Box 2 Folder 21
Anaylsis of Interviews and Observation Data
Box 2 Folder 22
The Diplomatic Relations Involved in Research (Part I)
Box 2 Folder 23
CMT On Nat. Obs. and Interviewing Notes on Meetings
Box 2 Folder 24
Characteristics of the Method
Box 2 Folder 25
Outline, Summaries and Bibliographies
Box 2 Folder 26
Readings in Intern and Obs. for CORE Course
Box 2 Folder 27
Field Relations
Box 2 Folder 28
Observation
Box 2 Folder 29
Lab 4
Box 2 Folder 30
Lab 3 Interviewing
Box 2 Folder 31
Exper. Interviews Recorded for Lab 3
Box 2 Folder 32
Lab 3 Interviewing
Box 2 Folder 33
Instructions for Tests
Box 2 Folder 34
Syllabus for 15 Sessions
Box 2 Folder 35
Lab Suggestions Int. and Obs. from CORE Course
Box 2 Folder 36
Stirling County study of community and family life in Digby, 1951-1955
Administrative Accounts and Bookkeeping
Box 2 Folder 37
Correspondence re Cornell Project
Box 2 Folder 38
Digby General
Box 2 Folder 39
Survey Publications
Box 2 Folder 40
Fourth Annual Report
Box 2 Folder 41
Early Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 42
Research Designs - Digby GEM
Box 2 Folder 43
R. Schwartz - Outgoing Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 44
Reports - Digby, done by GEM
Box 2 Folder 45
Assistants - Digby Project
Box 2 Folder 46
Budgets - Statistical Unit
Box 2 Folder 47
Jane Hughes - John Collier
Box 2 Folder 48
Clinic Financial Reports, Sept. 1954
Box 2 Folder 49
Job Hunting, B.D.'s Work - Spring Schedules of Social Science Unit
Box 2 Folder 50
Quarterly Reports
Box 2 Folder 51
Summary of Oct. 21, 1954
Box 2 Folder 52
Meetings - Psychiatric Clinic
Box 2 Folder 53
Notes on Latent Sturcture Analysis
Box 2 Folder 54
Stirling Reports
Box 2 Folder 55
Use of the Discriminant Function...McCreary
Box 2 Folder 56
Hant's-King's D.A. on Digby Evolutions
Box 2 Folder 57
Dalton Vernon
Box 2 Folder 58
Digby Discriminant Rank - Ordering Males and Females Separately
Box 2 Folder 59
Ade Tembly - Emile Gosselin
Box 2 Folder 60
Frank Young D.T.A.
Box 2 Folder 61
Yatsushiro Survey vs. Anthropology
Box 2 Folder 62
Land Use Planning Study
Box 2 Folder 63
Bruce Dohrenwend
Box 2 Folder 64
Poverty Class vs. Sickness Classification
Box 2 Folder 65
Evaluation Tabulations
Box 2 Folder 66
Housing Survey and Photography
Box 2 Folder 67
Statistics on Informants re Economic Well-being
Box 2 Folder 68
Plans for Evaluating Stress Factors
Box 2 Folder 69
Class Structure - Digby
Box 2 Folder 70
Digby Hosprial and Referral Cards
Box 2 Folder 71
Psychiatric Clinic
Box 2 Folder 72
Bill Longaker
Box 2 Folder 73
Doctor Interviewing
Box 2 Folder 74
Sorting of Well's and H.S.
Box 2 Folder 75
Write-up of Stratum Impressions
Box 2 Folder 76
Reasons for Refusal on Survey
Box 2 Folder 77
Draft of Interviewer's Handbook
Box 2 Folder 78
Pre-test Draft of Question
Box 2 Folder 79
Draft I Questionnaire
Box 2 Folder 80
Draft II Questionnaire
Box 2 Folder 81
Draft III Questionnaire
Box 2 Folder 82
The Historical Development of Measures of Economic Well-being
Box 2 Folder 83
Study of Religions
Box 3 Folder 1
Poverty - Affluence - F.L.S. Reports
Box 3 Folder 2
Secularization - F.L.S. Reports
Box 3 Folder 3
Map Index
Box 3 Folder 4
Criticism of Survey Method
Box 3 Folder 5
Technical Survey Book
Box 3 Folder 6
Information on Questionnaires - House Number Changes, etc.
Box 3 Folder 7
Field Notes from Summer Survey
Box 3 Folder 8
Survey of Family and County Life
Box 3 Folder 9
Statistical Supplement to the Report on "Organized Religious Life in Digby County"
Box 3 Folder 10
Jean Cooper's Report
Box 3 Folder 11
Car Scale
Box 3 Folder 12
Lowell's Child Rearing Analysis Schedule
Box 3 Folder 13
Monthly Reports
Box 3 Folder 14
Monthly Reports
Box 3 Folder 15
Monthly Reports
Box 3 Folder 16