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Herbert H. Hyman papers
Hyman, Herbert Hiram, 1918-
6619504
MS#1444
English
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7.14 linear feet
17 boxes
1942-1985
Herbert H. Hyman (1918-1985), an expert on the science of polling, was a professor of sociology at both Columbia University (1951-1969) and Wesleyan University (1969-1985). His papers deal primarily with his professional research interests and projects, but also include some teaching materials. His files include budgets, code books, correspondence, course materials, drafts, grant files, proposals, surveys, and typescripts.
Arrangement
The files have been left in the order in which Herbert Hyman stored them during his lifetime.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical information for Hyman can be found in the Historical Biographical Files of the University Archives. The file includes both a curriculum vita and a list of his writings that date from 1985.
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Summary
The papers deal primarily with Hyman's professional research interests and projects, and include material on both published and unpublished projects. In general, Hyman grouped materials together by topic or project. The files also include some course, lecture and teaching materials; budgets, code books, correspondence, course materials, drafts, grant files, proposals, research, surveys, and typescripts.
Summary
The papers reflect Hyman's interest in education, socialization, and attitude change. They include files on research projects related to blind individuals, civil liberties, comparative survey research, desegregation in schools, public opinion, race and race relations, and widowhood. At the time of his death, Hyman was researching the history of survey research; there are several files related to the project.
Summary
Hyman often kept files on similar subjects or projects together in small groups. For example, the files on research projects include large sets of files on two topics. The first set of files relates to Hyman's research study on the blind, referred to in reports as "Communication, Perception and Social Behavior: Explorations in These Fundamental Processes through the Study of the Inter-group Relations and Attitudes of the Blind." This project was started in the early 1960s at Columbia University. The files include code books, correspondence, proposals, and reports. Although Hyman produced several articles from the research, the unrest at Columbia University in 1968 caused the disruption and abandonment of the project.
Summary
The second set of files relates to the Office of War Information (OWI). These files include code books, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and background material. Although Hyman did work for the Surveys Division of OWI during World War II, it is clear from his correspondence that he also conducted research on this topic in the early 1980s. It is not clear if these materials document Hyman's research activity, his work at OWI, or both.
Summary
There are two items which appear to date from Hyman's time as a student: a course paper (1942) and a resource list of materials relating to Social Psychology written with Gardner Murphy. Both are in Box 2. Otherwise, the collection contains no material from Hyman's pre-professional activities.
Summary
A few files that contain biographical information and reviews of Hyman's work are filed in Boxes 5, 7, and 10. There are a few publicity photographs of Hyman in the "Personal Data" file in Box 7; otherwise, there are no photographs in the collection. The collection does not contain any material related to Hyman's personal life or interests.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Herbert H. Hyman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was: Source of acquisition--Mrs. Helen Kandel Hyman in. Method of acquisition--donated by; Date of acquisition--1989.
Biographical / Historical
Herbert H. Hyman was born in New York City on March 3, 1918.
Biographical / Historical
Hyman received all of his degrees from Columbia University. He completed a bachelor's degree in 1939, a master's in 1940, and a PhD. in Social Psychology in 1942. During World War II, Hyman worked for the United States Government. At first, he worked as a Social Science Analyst for the Division of Program Surveys in the Department of Agriculture. From 1942-1944, he worked as a Public Opinion Analyst in the Surveys Division of the Officer of War Information. From 1942-1946, he was involved in the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Germany and the Bombing Survey of Japan, and in 1947, he was a member of the Expert Mission on Public Opinion and Sociological Research, Army of Occupation, Japan.
Biographical / Historical
In 1947, Hyman became a Senior Project Director at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). He joined the faculty of Columbia University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology in 1951, although he continued to work part-time at NORC until 1957. While at Columbia, Hyman chaired the Sociology Department (1965-1969) and served as the Associate Director for the University's Bureau of Applied Research (1957-1969). He also served as the Program Director for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva (1964-1965). From 1969 until his retirement, he was a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University. During his career, Hyman also held visiting professorships and lectureships at several institutions, including the Universities of California at Berkeley, Oslo, Ankara, Turin and Milan, Catania and Turin, Temple University, and MIT.
Biographical / Historical
Hyman was the author of four books on public opinion polling, and is credited with helping to advance the science of polling. He is well-known as a survey researcher, and had strong interests in education, socialization, and attitude change. But as David Sills notes in his review of Surveying Social Research: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman, Hyman did not see survey work as a purely technical exercise. He felt that survey work was "both a method for obtaining information needed by policy makers and scholars and a form of ethnography - a way of enabling people to reveal their culture and their feelings to a researcher.".
Biographical / Historical
Hyman married Helen Kandel, a freelance writer, in 1945. The couple had two sons, Alex and David, and a daughter, Lisa. Hyman died in China after suffering a heart attack in December 1985. He had traveled to the country to speak at a conference on "Uses of Sociology in Developing Countries" at Zhongshan University.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Catherine N. Carson.
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Catherine N. Carson in April 2008.
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Blind -- Research -- United States
Interviewing
Political psychology
Political socialization
Public opinion polls
Social psychology
Social sciences -- Research
Social sciences -- Methodology
Social surveys
Correspondence
Hyman, Herbert Hiram, 1918-
FilesReadings in Public Opinion195711Scope and Contents(In Turkish)
Collected Lectures: Introduction the Methodology of the Social Sciences,1957-195812Scope and Contents(In Turkish)
Animals1948-197213Civil Liberties, circa1946-196214Public Opinion, circa1949-196215Texas Lecture on Communication and Integration196716Mass Communication197417Scope and Contents(Draft for book chapter and correspondence)
PSD and Later ISR (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan),1977-198218Voluntary Association1960-197719Handbook Chapter1973110Scope and Contents(Hyman wrote an article for the Handbook of Political Psychology in 1973)
Strategies in Comparative Social Research1963 July111Scope and Contents(Inter-University Consortium for Political Research)
Prose Surveys--HH Memos1942-1943112Political Socialization: A Study in the Psychology of Political Behavior,1957-1958Correspondence113Typescript114Social Psychology--List of Teaching and Research Material, circa1940s21Scope and Contents(Compiled by Gardner Murphy and Herbert Hyman)
Catholic Physicians and Birth Control/Experimental Selective Empanelling, 1964, 19711964197122Scope and Contents(Proposal and correspondence)
An Outline for the Comparative Study of National Images of America,195723Scope and Contents(Draft)
Historical Trends in the Study of Genius1942 January24Scope and Contents(Course paper)
Democratic Potential/Values Study195925Scope and Contents(Turkey)
An Experimental Study of Functional Autonomy194226Scope and Contents(Correspondence, typescript)
Material related to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Germany1944-194527Expert Informant Article196628Social Science Research Council--Comparative Sociological Research Committee,1967-196829Problems of Inducing Social Change: Some Implications for Education,1969210Scope and Contents(Lecture at the University of Michigan)
The Mysterious Case of Gini and Galvani: The Cause of Random Sampling Abetted by the Nonrandom Sampling of Scientific Information,1963-1964211Scope and Contents(Correspondence; typescript)
1976 Italy Sabbatical, 197619761976212Stouffer Article for Dictionary of American Biography1979213295-361, circa1952-1972214Scope and Contents(Includes teaching materials and a research proposal entitled, "Problems and Principles of Secondary Analysis of Survey Data: A Proposal for the Codification of Past Experience Leading to the Improved Utilization in the Future")
Anomie Paper1961215Race1982-1985216Scope and Contents(Research on school desegregation)
Secondary Analysis of Sample Surveys Sample Pages, circa1972217Scope and Contents(Book reviews)
Readings in Reference Group Theory and Research--Correspondence1966-1972218Spencer--Budget1973-197531Scope and Contents(Grant for "The Enduring Effects of Education")
Survey Design1969-197032Scope and Contents(Royalties for "Survey Design and Analysis")
Reference Group Book Royalties1966-197033National Science Foundation (NSF)--Principles of Secondary Analysis Grant,1969-197234Enduring Effects of Education Royalties1974-198535Sabbatical198036Scope and Contents(Related to research for "History of the Sample Survey Method of the United States")
Contract--Encyclopedia (Klineberg article)1975-1978371971-1972 Italy--Papers, 1971-19731971-19721971-197338Civil Liberties Piece196239Scope and Contents(The piece is "England and America: Climates of Tolerance and Intolerance")
Arno Press Foreign Status1979310Scope and Contents(Related to the reprinting of his dissertation)
Spencer1975-1978311Scope and Contents(Related to "The Enduring Effects of Education")
John Reed--Lecture on SouthUndated312Unemployment1975-1979313Scope and Contents(Related to "The Effects of Unemployment: A Neglected Problem in Modern Social Research")
Italy Survey Analysis Lectures and Comp. Survey Analysis MSUndated314Bob Smith Chapter and Manuscript1971-1984(2 Folders)315-16Scope and Contents(Related to "Strategies in Comparative Survey Research," written for Quantitative Methods: Focused Survey Research and Casual Modeling)
Encyclopedia of Public Opinion1984-1985317Scope and Contents(This is related to "Opinion Measurement" written for the International Encyclopedia of Communications)
SOC 2241980-1981319Public Opinion Classes, 1971, 197619711976320Proposal--University Linkage Program for Scandinavia198341Material on Various Courses1955-196842SOC 295195543Bureau of Applied Social Research (BASR)/ORR1974-198544Social Conditions for Public OpinionUndated45Scope and Contents(Typescript; Drafts)
Sociology Classes1954-1956(2 Folders)46-7A Substitute for the Traditional Control Group in Evaluation Studies (with Charles Wright), 1959, Undated1959Undated48Political Institutions and Political Cultures, circa196449Scope and Contents(Correspondence; drafts)
Hold--Valuable Correspondence--Pending1969-1975410Civil Liberties Project, circa1954411Reference Groups File, 1963-1971, Undated1963-1971Undated412Public Opinion/Political CultureUndated51The Expanding PublicUndated(2 Folders)52-3Scope and Contents(See the preceding Folder for a larger table of contents)
Personal Response Project196854Scope and Contents(Correspondence with R.A. McGonigal)
SOC 195 and 1961952-195555Public Opinion, 1975 Spring197556Scope and Contents(Includes reading list; drafts of research writings)
Political Institutions and Political Cultures/The Expanding Public,Undated57Scope and Contents(Drafts; typescripts)
H. Hyman's Publication List1965-196859Scope and Contents(Includes correspondence)
HH--Sex RolesUndated61Social Structure and the Structure of PublicsUndated62Public Opinion197763Scope and Contents(SOC 223)
University Linkage with Scandinavia198364Proposal for Senior Seminar198265Proposal for Research Project on the Social and Psychological Effects of Widowhood,197866SOC 206x (Previously 292) Secondary Analysis1977-198267Old Course Materials1954-195668Communication Research G6094y Reading ListUndated69Public Opinion Course--Reading List, 1966 Spring1966610Race Relations Experiment1969611Secondary Analysis Proposal1968 February612Scope and Contents(Full title is "Problems and Principles of Secondary Analysis of Survey Data: A Proposal for Codification of Past Experience Leading to Improved Utilization in the Future")
Special Correspondence--References, Letters to Students, Etc.1966-1969613Survey Design--Guido Martinotti1966-1968614Scope and Contents(Related to the Italian edition of "Survey Design and Analysis")
Reading List for G9073x (Evaluational Research)1967 September615Miscellaneous Reading Lists1965-1968616Bob Smith MS, 1970, 1984-198519701984-1985617Scope and Contents(This is "Strategies in Comparative Survey Research, written for Quantitative Methods: Focused Survey Research and Casual Modeling")
Obits/Obituary Study1963-1964618Overseasmanship1964619Scope and Contents(Correspondence on Hyman's contribution to "Studying Politics Abroad: Field Research in Developing Areas")
Sociology 197, 1956, 195919561959620Mixed Blood1966-1967711952 New York State Political Study, circa 19561952195672Scope and Contents(Title of typescript is "New York State and the 1956 Presidential Election: A Survey Sample of Voters")
Editing Instructions and Codes--Hyman Political Survey (Confidential),195673Correspondence May-June, 1964 March-July , 19681964 March-July196874Correspondence with publisher, related to Secondary Analysis of Sample SurveysSecondary Analysis1984-198575Wiley--Secondary Analysis Book198576Memorials--Stember, Dribble, Schmiedeck1980-198277Scope and Contents(Written by Hyman)
Reprints, circa198478Wesleyan--Benefits, 1977, 19831977198379Scope and Contents(Includes correspondence on retirement plans)
Consulting1983710Scope and Contents(Related to a report evaluating a "Survey of Consumer Reactions to Three Reader's Digest Promotional Mailing Pieces")
Correspondence1969-1970(2 Folders)711-12Miscellaneous Correspondence1984-1985713Personal Data1952-1985(2 Folders)714-15Correspondence1970-1971716Dr. Kandel's Publication196681Retirement Letter198382Hyman Personal Correspondence1967-196883HHH Personal196784Psychology of Status Contract197985Miscellaneous Correspondence1969-1983(2 Folders)86-7China Trip198588Miscellaneous Correspondence1961-198389Unidentified Binder, circa1950810Preface for Secondary Analysis1985811Reading Lists Communications Research, circa1957-1981812A Personal History of Survey Research1967-1985(5 Folders)91-5Miscellaneous Notes to Check with Department1979-198296Stouffer197497SSRC--pre-elect. 48 meas. Consumer wants wtc.1948-195298Radvanyi--McCarthyism, 1954-1955, 19831954-1955198399State Polls--University Centers (Specialized Centers)1982-1983910A Personal History of Survey ResearchRussell Sage1982911For General Intro (I) Intro to Part IIUndated912Scope and Contents(Ratings of the proposal)
Russell Sage Progress Reports and Budgets1983-1985913Russell Sage Letter of Award and Budget1981-1984914The Rise of Survey Research: An Insider's Remembrance of Things Past (Address to New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research),1980 October915The Sample Survey: Its Nature, History, Utilization and Effects. A Preliminary Report to the National Science Board,1979 February916"Public Opinion Research in Japan" from Opinion News1947101The Enduring Effects of EducationResearch Proposal1971102Papers Presented on1973-1974103-4Reviews of Hyman's Work, circa1959-1980105Long Term Trends in Belief About the Characteristics of Women and Men: Study of social change by semi-secondary analysis of national surveys,1973 November106The Enduring Effects of Education II: Effects in the Realm of Values: A Research Proposal to the Spencer Foundation,1975 March 1107The Utility of the Sample Survey in the Study and Care of Epilepsy I. Design and Validation of the Method and Basic Findings on Prevalence, circa1970s108Working Papers and Memos--Encampment for Citizenship Evaluations/Hyman and Wright,1955109Experiment--Black Prestige Suggestion19691010Scope and Contents(Social Research Curriculum Project--Research in Race Relations)
Reflections on the Development of Methodology (Unpublished)1983 August1011Scope and Contents(Written for Hyman's reception of the Helen Dinerman Memorial Award)
The Evolution of Heroes (People Magazine)19841012Civil Liberties, circa19561013Scope and Contents(Some of this relates to "England and America: Climates of Tolerance and Intolerance")
Russell Sage Foundation (Review of Irving Crespi Proposal)19831014Correspondence (Kenneth Langston)19701015Miscellaneous for Follow-up Study and Proposal (Widowhood)1979-19831016Texas Poll, circa1979111The Sciences of Man1984-1985112Coca-Cola1981113Scope and Contents(Consultation work for Pepsi Challenge Commercials case)
Social Survey ManuscriptUndated114Serendipity (Final Copy)Undated115PALIOUndated116Warner Studies1981-1982117Japanese Survey Mission1947118Otto Klineberg1975 October1110Scope and Contents(Corrected Copy)
Civil Liberties19561111Scope and Contents(Research Proposal)
USSBS Bombing Article1972-19811112Survey Methodology--History--Daniel Katz and Steve Nelson19791113Dan Katz File and Case Study1982-19831114Scope and Contents(This is related to "A Personal History of Survey Research")
SRC December Revision19851115Scope and Contents(The appears to be related to the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan)
SRC Miscellaneous Items to check against manuscript and Dan's Case Study,19851121Files related to Blind Studies, circa1963-1973Professor Hyman's Grant1967121Blind Article1963-1973122Supplementary Report on Phase I of Communication, Perception and Social Behavior (Attitudes of the Blind),1963 March 1123Proposal to the National Science Foundation: Phase II of Research (Attitudes of the Blind),1963 January(2 Folders)124-5[Children's?] SampleUndated126Sample Blind Finished127Blind--Mimeo Appendices128Adult Blind North Occupational Choice129Blind Occ./Manpower, circa19671210Untitled(2 Folders)131-2Reliability1965133Correspondence on Blind1963-1965134Blind Materials, circa1964135Application for Conference Grant1966136Draft--Blind Project137Scope and Contents(Appendix D)
Untitled138Personal Blind1967139Correspondence--Blind Study1962-19631310Blind Study(2 Folders)1311-12HH Letter to M. Raeder1963 December 201313HH Memoranda1961-19631314Untitled1315Sample Report1316M. Raeder--Boston Report19641317Sample Data New York19651318NORC (National Opinion Research Center) Correspondence on the Blind, circa19641319New Orleans19641320Boston19641321Blind--North Carolina19641322Essex County1323Children's Interview--Drafts and Pretest Questionnaires19641324Blind Correspondence (General)1963-1964141Blind--Children's Study1964142Atlanta1964143Blind, New York1964144Mimeos1965145Blind Special Interest Items1964146Untitled1961-1966147Scope and Contents(Correspondence; Survey Designs)
Code BooksAdult Blind148Blind Children149Master Code Book: Blind Children1410Adult Matched Sighted151Matched Parents152Matched Sighed Siblings153NORC White Blind Adult154Office of War Information (OWI) Files, circa1942-1946Shipbuilding Background1942155Surveys Division Memoranda # 46, 53, 53A, 53B, 991943-1944156Instruments Absenteeism Study1943157OWI, 1942-1944, 19841942-19441984158Material on Labor Surveys1942159Surveys Division Memoranda #44, 54, 601943161USSBS (US Strategic Bombing Survey of Germany), 1940s, 19701940s1970162Untitled(2 Folders)163-4Surveys Division Memoranda #32, 42, 47, 61, 66, 71, 79, 82, 89, 97, 98,1943(2 Folders)165-6Memoranda and Reports1943-1944167Memoranda and Reports1943-1944171DU-1 Reports A-L172Untitled Binder (Appears to continue the previous DU-1 Reports)173NORC (National Opinion Research Center), 1947, 1964, 1983-1984194719641983-1984174Master Code Books for Surveys S-17, S-29, and T-171942-1943(3 Folders)175-7Office of War Information--Rationing, circa1942-1944178