Albion Woodbury Small, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the first Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.[1]
Small was born in Buckfield, Maine and grew up in Bangor, Maine. He studied theology from 1876 to 1879 at the Andover Newton Theological School. From 1879 to 1881 he studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin in Germany history, social economics and politics.[2]
From 1888 to 1889 he studied history at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and was promoted in 1889 with a Ph.D. thesis (The Beginnings of American Nationality) at the same time continuing to teach at Colby College. From 1889-1892 he was the president of Colby.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Herbert Baxter Adams | grad student | Johns Hopkins (History of History Tree) | |
| Richard T. Ely | grad student | Johns Hopkins (History of History Tree) |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Ernest Burgess | grad student | (Nursing Tree) | |
| Charles Abram Ellwood | grad student | UCLA | |
| William I. Thomas | grad student | Chicago (History of History Tree) | |
| Louis Wirth | grad student | (EduTree) | |
| Henry Rand Hatfield | grad student | 1897 | Chicago (Econometree) |
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| Small AW. (1926) Common Wealth: A Study in Social Philosophy.C. G. Campbell American Journal of Sociology. 31: 682-683 |
| Small AW. (1925) The Story of Human Progress.Leon C. MarshallChapters in Social History.Henry S. SpaldingAn Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems.Walter Greenwood Beach American Journal of Sociology. 31: 104-105 |
| Small AW. (1925) The New History and the Social Studies.Harry Elmer Barnes American Journal of Sociology. 31: 89-90 |
| Small AW. (1925) The Social Theory of Georg Simmel.Nicholas J. Spykman American Journal of Sociology. 31: 84-87 |
| Small AW. (1925) Sociology and Plato's "Republic". Part II American Journal of Sociology. 30: 513-533 |
| Small AW. (1924) Some Contributions to the History of Sociology. Section XIX. The Emergence of Sociology in the United States American Journal of Sociology. 30: 310-336 |
| Small AW. (1924) Some Contributions to the History of Sociology. Section XVIII. The Sociologizing Movement Within Political Science American Journal of Sociology. 30: 302-310 |
| Small AW. (1924) Social Development, Its Nature and Conditions.L. T. Hobhouse American Journal of Sociology. 30: 216-220 |
| Small AW. (1924) Social Discovery.Edward C. Lindeman American Journal of Sociology. 30: 214-216 |
| Small AW. (1924) Some Contributions to the History of Sociology. Section XVII. The Attempt (1860-80) to Reconstruct Economic Theory on a Sociological Basis American Journal of Sociology. 30: 177-194 |