Cornell University Department of Sociology and Anthropology records, 1951-1955.
Collection Number: 14-25-2209

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University Department of Sociology and Anthropology records, 1951-1955.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-25-2209
Abstract:
Records for a research training seminar and various other reports.
Creator:
Cornell University. Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007.
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
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

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

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

SUBJECTS

Names:
Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007.
Cornell University. Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Subjects:
Interviewing in sociology.
Sociology -- Methodology.
Sociology -- Study and teaching.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching.

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