This series provides a framework for understanding key sociological studies and projects conducted by Merton in the mid-twentieth century. Project documentation includes analyses of publications, general surveys, and proposed project topics. Study materials, which comprise the bulk of the series, cover Merton's early sociological pursuits, mainly while he was involved with the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University. Of note are original interviews, questionnaires, and journals of study participants, which provide an unfiltered look at American social thought and attitude regarding social and cultural issues, education, and careers. These are particularly evidenced in the Ethnic Opinionnaires completed in the 1940s. The records also reflect the evolution of Merton's studies into larger bodies of work, such as publications and conferences. This series is particularly important as it illuminates early social research methodology. A good portion of the records include notes, proposals for funding, drafts of questionnaires, and memoranda related to execution of studies. The studies were also used in Merton's courses and seminars at Columbia University as a means of teaching sociology students about research practices.
Major studies reflected in Series VI include the Housing study, the Manhattanville project, the Expert study, the study of Medical Education and the Eisenhower mail study. The Housing study analyzed a mixed race public housing community and Merton used these findings to examine social concepts, such as friendship, from a sociological perspective. Several publications derived from the study, most notably Patterns of Social Life: Explorations in the Sociology of Housing, are represented in the series. The Manhattanville project was conducted in the early 1950s and records consist of extensive interviews with members of the Manhattanville neighborhood in New York. These interviews were used to determine the community's occupational aspirations and success models. This study relied heavily on participant interviews and observation and detailed transcripts and field reports are contained here. The Expert study focused on several separate case studies to understand the utilization of social sciences and scientists in business and government. The study evolved into several published works, which are represented in the series. The Sociological Study of Medical Education records include interviews and journals from students in medical programs at Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Western Reserve. Material also includes codebooks, correspondence, and memoranda related to the study. Of note is a folder titled: 'Analysis of Material for Concept Formation.' These are items from the study compiled by Merton many years later and examined for early usage of concepts and phrases, such as role model. Additional material regarding publications from this study are located in Subseries VII.3. The Eisenhower mail study was an attempt by Merton, Joan Goldhamer, and other Bureau of Applied Social Research affiliates to analyze approximately 20,000 letters, postcards and telegrams received by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1948 urging him to become candidate for the presidency of the United States. Midway through the project, Eisenhower's team asked the Bureau to abandon the study, giving no explanation. In 1998 Joan Goldhamer published a follow up article entitled "General Eisenhower in academe: A clash of perspectives and a study suppressed." Contained in this series are unpublished documents related to the original mail study, including transcripts of a meeting between Merton and Eisenhower, memoranda, correspondence, and initial drafts. Items pertaining to the revival of the study include correspondence and Goldhamer's drafts containing Merton's edits.
Box 196 Folder 5
Adlai Stevenson Mass Mail Project (aborted), 1953-1954
Box 352 Folder 1
American Sociological Review Analysis, circa, 1965
Box 196 Folder 6
Bell Telephone Study, 1948-1956
Box 196 Folder 7-9
Center for the Social Sciences--American Author Surveys, 1980, (3 Folders)
Box 197 Folder 1-6
Center for the Social Sciences--American Author Surveys, 1980, (6 Folders)
Box 198 Folder 1-6
Center for the Social Sciences--American Author Surveys, 1980, (6 Folders)
Box 199 Folder 1-2
Center for the Social Sciences--American Author Surveys, 1980, (2 Folders)
Box 199 Folder 3
Conditions Attendant on the Closing of Intake by Transient Bureaus, 1935
Dictionary of National Biography Analyses
Box 352 Folder 6
Dictionary of Urban Data Project, 1946
Box 199 Folder 4
Edward Condon Study--"Trial by Newspaper,", 1949
Eisenhower Mail Study
Box 199 Folder 5
Code, 1948
Box 199 Folder 6
Conversation with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1949
Correspondence
Box 199 Folder 7
IBM, 1949
Box 199 Folder 8-10
and Memoranda, 1948-1950, (3 Folders)
Box 199 Folder 11
Drafts, 1949
Box 200 Folder 1
Drafts, 1949
Revival of Study
Box 200 Folder 3-4
Correspondence, 1969, 1981-1993, 1969, 1981-1993, (2 Folders)
"General Eisenhower in Academe: A Clash of Perspectives and a Study Suppressed" by Joan Goldhamer
Box 200 Folder 5
Correspondence, 1995-1997
Box 200 Folder 6-7
Drafts and Edits, 1985-1996, (2 Folders)
Box 200 Folder 8
Notes, 1992
Box 200 Folder 9-10
Research Materials, 1982-1992, (2 Folders)
Box 200 Folder 2
Summary and Digest, 1949
Ethnic Opinionnaires
Box 201 Folder 1-3
Completed Surveys, circa, 1938, (3 Folders)
Box 201 Folder 4
"Facts and Factitiousness in Ethnic Opinionnaires,", 1940-1953
Box 201 Folder 5-7
Questionnaires and Effect on Research, 1943, (3 Folders)
Box 201 Folder 8
Rapport in Use of Opinionnaire, 1943, undated, 1943, undated
Expert Study
Box 201 Folder 9-10
General, 1947-1948, (2 Folders)
AT&T
Box 201 Folder 11-12
General, 1949, (2 Folders)
Box 201 Folder 13
"Applied Social Research and Business decisions: A Preliminary Case Report,", 1951
Box 201 Folder 14
Correspondence, 1949-1956
Box 202 Folder 1
Correspondence, 1949-1956
Box 202 Folder 2
Criteria, 1949
Box 202 Folder 3
Employee Survey, 1948
Box 202 Folder 4
Interviews with Staff, 1946-1949
Box 202 Folder 5
Presentation of Research Findings, 1950
Box 202 Folder 6
Smith, C.T., 1955
Box 202 Folder 7-9
Sociology Workshop, 1964-1970, (3 Folders)
Box 202 Folder 10
"Some Factors Affecting the Initiation of Applied Social Research," circa, 1940s
Box 203 Folder 1-8
The Role of Social Research in Business Administration: A Case Study Based Primarily Upon the 1930-1949 Experience of the Opinion Research Section of the Chief Statistician's Division of AT&T (with E.C. Devereux, Jr.)--Drafts and Working Papers, circa, 1950s, (8 Folders)
Box 204 Folder 1
The Role of Social Research in Business Administration: A Case Study Based Primarily Upon the 1930-1949 Experience of the Opinion Research Section of the Chief Statistician's Division of AT&T (with E.C. Devereux, Jr.)--Drafts and Working Papers, circa, 1950s
Box 204 Folder 2-3
Background Research Material, circa, 1940s, (2 Folders)
Box 204 Folder 4
Budget, 1949-1950
Carnegie Corporation
Box 204 Folder 5
Correspondence and Reports, 1948-1953
Box 204 Folder 6
Grant, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 7
Conference on the Expert and Applied Social Science, 1948
Correspondence
Box 204 Folder 8
A, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 9
B, 1950
Box 204 Folder 10
C, 1946-1948
Box 204 Folder 11
D-F, 1949-1951
Box 204 Folder 12
Hatt, Paul, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 13
J-M, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 14
P, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 15
R-Z, 1948-1949
Box 204 Folder 16-18
"The Expert in Applied Social Science,", 1943-1948, (3 Folders)
Box 205 Folder 1
"The Expert in Applied Social Science,", 1943-1948
Box 205 Folder 2
Form Letters, 1948-1949
Box 205 Folder 3
Index of Material, 1948
Box 205 Folder 4
Interview--Glock, Charles, 1948
Box 205 Folder 5
Market Research Council, 1949
Box 205 Folder 6
Meeting Notes, 1948
Memoranda
Box 205 Folder 7-10
General, 1948-1949, (4 Folders)
Box 205 Folder 11
Devereux, E.C., 1949
Box 205 Folder 12
Hatt, Paul, 1948
Office of War Information
Box 205 Folder 13-14
Anti-Inflation Study, 1942-1944, (2 Folders)
Box 205 Folder 15
Interviews--Tentative Outline, 1948
Box 205 Folder 16
Summary Memoranda, 1948
Box 206 Folder 1
Panel of Experts, 1950-1951
Box 206 Folder 2
Panel of Research Directors, 1951
Public Opinion Polls
Box 206 Folder 3
American Association of Public Opinion Research, 1949
Box 206 Folder 4
Background Research Material, 1948
Box 206 Folder 7
Editor Poll, 1948-1949
Box 206 Folder 5-6
"Election Polling Forecasts and Public Images of Social Science"--Notes and Drafts,, 1949, (2 Folders)
Box 206 Folder 8
Memoranda, 1947
Box 206 Folder 9-11
Replies from Editors, 1948-1949, (3 Folders)
Box 207 Folder 1
Puerto Rican Population, 1948-1949
Box 207 Folder 2
Requests, 1948-1953
Box 207 Folder 3
Social Science Research Council, 1947
Box 207 Folder 4
Transcription, 1949
Box 207 Folder 5
Utilization of Applied Social Research, 1949
Box 207 Folder 6
Finance Attitude Study, 1948
Box 352 Folder 7-9
Handbook on the Drafting of Sociological Studies, 1946-1971, (3 Folders)
Box 352 Folder 10
Harvard Business School Study, 1961-1962
Box 207 Folder 7
Hours Spent on Community Activity in Decatur, undated
Housing Study
Box 207 Folder 8
General, 1945-1954
Box 352 Folder 11
General, undated
Addison Terrace
Box 207 Folder 12
"The Analysis of Community Researchers,", 1947
Box 207 Folder 13
Charts, undated
Box 207 Folder 14
Citizens' Housing Council of New York, Inc., 1946-1950
Box 207 Folder 15
Commission on Race and Housing, 1956-1957
Box 207 Folder 16-17
Community Ethos, undated, 1950, (2 Folders)
Correspondence
Box 207 Folder 18
General, 1947
Box 207 Folder 19
Wurster, Catherine Bauer, 1948-1951
Craftown
Box 208 Folder 6
File Index, undated
Friendship
Box 208 Folder 7-9
General, circa, 1950s, (3 Folders)
Box 208 Folder 10
Background Research, undated
Box 208 Folder 11
Card Design, undated
Box 209 Folder 1
Cross Currents, 1952-1966
Box 209 Folder 2
Drafts, 1945
Box 209 Folder 3
Memoranda, 1944-1952
Box 209 Folder 4-5
Tables and Notes, 1952-1955, (2 Folders)
Box 209 Folder 6
Interim Report, 1946
Box 209 Folder 7
Isolates Tables, undated
Lavanburg Foundation
Box 209 Folder 8
Budget, 1945-1947
Box 209 Folder 9-10
Correspondence, 1944-1961, (2 Folders)
Box 210 Folder 1
Report, 1949
Notes
Box 210 Folder 2-3
General, circa, 1945, (2 Folders)
Box 210 Folder 4
Race Relations, 1949
Patterns of Social Life: Explorations in the Sociology of Housing (with Patricia S. West and Marie Jahoda)
Box 210 Folder 5-9
Annotated Typescript, 1948, (5 Folders)
Box 211 Folder 1-9
Annotated Typescript, 1948, (9 Folders)
Box 212 Folder 1-2
Annotated Typescript, 1948, (2 Folders)
Box 352 Folder 12
Correspondence and Edits, 1968-1987
Drafts
Box 212 Folder 3-10
General, 1946-1949, undated, 1946-1949, undated, (8 Folders)
Box 213 Folder 1-10
General, 1946-1949, undated, 1946-1949, undated, (10 Folders)
Box 214 Folder 1-7
General, 1946-1949, undated, 1946-1949, undated, (7 Folders)
Box 214 Folder 8
and Memoranda, undated
Box 215 Folder 1
and Memoranda, undated
Box 215 Folder 2
Table of Contents, undated
Box 215 Folder 3
Reference Material, 1939-1943
Box 215 Folder 4
Requests for Copies, 1961-1978
Box 215 Folder 5
"Selected Problems of Field Work in the Planned Community,", 1946
Box 215 Folder 6-7
"Social Fictions and Social Facts: The Dynamics of Race Relations in Hilltown,", 1949, (2 Folders)
Box 215 Folder 8
"The Social Psychology of Housing,", 1948
Box 215 Folder 9-11
Training Guide, undated, (3 Folders)
Box 216 Folder 1-2
Training Guide, undated, (2 Folders)
Winfield
Box 216 Folder 3
General, 1945
Box 216 Folder 4
Card Design, undated
Box 216 Folder 5-9
Code Book, 1945-1946, (5 Folders)
Box 216 Folder 10
Questionnaires, 1945-1946
Box 216 Folder 11
Human Relations Area Files, Inc.--Cross Cultural Survey, 1948-1953
Box 217 Folder 1
Kikuchi Diary Study, 1947-1950
Box 217 Folder 2
LIFE Magazine Ubiquity Study, 1947-1948
Manhattanville Project
Box 220 Folder 1
National Opinion Research Center--Correspondence and Agreements, 1948-1952
Box 220 Folder 2
New Orleans Elite--Preliminary Data, 1940
Box 220 Folder 3-4
New York Television Study, 1952-1956, (2 Folders)
Box 220 Folder 5-6
New York Time Budget Study, 1945-1946, (2 Folders)
Box 148 Folder 1
New York Time Budget Study, 1944
Office of Radio Research--Time Magazine Readership and the Influence Structure of Dover New Jersey
Proposed
Box 220 Folder 11
Comparative Study of Social Mobility, Its Causes and Consequences, 1954
Box 221 Folder 1
Judicial Personnel, 1947
Box 221 Folder 2
Negro Medical Students, 1969
Box 221 Folder 3
Public Reaction to Sonic Booms--Air Force Office of Scientific Research,, 1965
Box 221 Folder 4
Sociology of Complex Organizations, 1958
Box 221 Folder 5
Radio Program Content Analysis, 1943
Sociological Study of Medical Education
Box 221 Folder 6-9
General, 1951-1961, (4 Folders)
Box 221 Folder 10-11
Analysis of Material for Concept Formation, 1951-1957, (2 Folders)
Box 222 Folder 1
Association of American Medical Colleges Conference, 1957-1958
Box 222 Folder 2
Background Material on Schools, 1952-1959
Code Books
Box 222 Folder 3-7
General, undated, 1956-1961, (5 Folders)
Box 222 Folder 8-11
Cornell University Medical College, 1952-1956, undated, 1952-1956, undated, (4 Folders)
Box 223 Folder 1-10
Cornell University Medical College, 1952-1956, undated (10 Folders, 1952-1956, undated
Box 224 Folder 1
Corrections, 1952-1957
Box 224 Folder 2
Inventory, 1954-1955
Box 224 Folder 3-10
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1953-1955, (8 Folders)
Box 225 Folder 1-6
Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 1953-1954, (6 Folders)
Box 225 Folder 7
Committee on Medical Sociology, 1955
Comparative Study of the Internship and Residency
Box 225 Folder 9
Budget and Finance, 1952-1961
Box 225 Folder 10
Correspondence, 1959-1962
Box 225 Folder 11
"The Internship: An Exploratory Analysis by Theresa Falaguerra,", 1957
Box 226 Folder 1-3
Proposal, 1958, (3 Folders)
Box 226 Folder 4
Seminar Notes, 1957-1958
Box 225 Folder 8
Concept of Socialization, undated
Correspondence
Box 226 Folder 5
General, 1955
Box 226 Folder 6
American Medical Association, 1958
Box 226 Folder 7
Association of American Medical Colleges, 1961-1963
Box 226 Folder 8
Boek, Walter, 1958
Box 226 Folder 9
Christie, Richard, 1956-1960
Box 226 Folder 10-11
The Commonwealth Fund, 1950-1959, (2 Folders)
Box 226 Folder 12
Cornell University, 1952-1960
Box 226 Folder 13
Fellowships, 1956-1957
Box 226 Folder 14
Inquiries, 1952-1955
Box 227 Folder 1-2
Nasatir, David, 1954-1960, (2 Folders)
University of Pennsylvania
Box 227 Folder 3
General, 1953-1958
Box 227 Folder 4
Mitchell, John McK. (Dean), 1953-1956
Box 227 Folder 5
Western Reserve University, 1952-1958
Box 227 Folder 6
Deferred Gratification, undated
Box 227 Folder 7-8
Evaluation of the Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program (CCTP) at Cornell University,, 1952-1959, (2 Folders)
Box 227 Folder 9
Evaluation Meeting, 1954
Box 227 Folder 10
Interim Reports--Western Reserve University, 1956
Box 227 Folder 11
Interviews and Surveys, 1954, undated, 1954, undated
Box 228 Folder 1-2
Master File, 1954, (2 Folders)
Memoranda
Box 228 Folder 3
Coleman, James, undated
Box 228 Folder 4
The Commonwealth Fund, 1956
Box 228 Folder 5
Cornell University, 1953-1958
Box 228 Folder 6
Early, 1952-1957
Monograph
Box 228 Folder 7
Group Meeting, 1953-1954
Box 228 Folder 8
Kass, Babette, undated
Box 228 Folder 9
Martin, William, 1956
Box 228 Folder 10
Nicholls, William, 1958
Box 228 Folder 11
Objectives of Medical Education, 1952-1953
Box 228 Folder 12
Planning, 1953
Box 228 Folder 13
Style Guidelines, undated
Notes
Box 228 Folder 14
and Data, 1952-1955
Box 228 Folder 15
and Drafts--Medical Attitudes and Values, undated
Box 228 Folder 16
Partial Data Summaries, circa, 1958
Box 229 Folder 1-3
Preliminary Report--Cornell University, 1953, (3 Folders)
Box 229 Folder 4
"Professional Education and Training,", undated
Box 229 Folder 5
Project Inventory--Western Reserve University, 1956-1960
Project Planning
Box 229 Folder 6
General, 1953-1954
Box 229 Folder 7
University of Pennsylvania, 1954
Proposals
Box 229 Folder 8-11
General, 1952-1957, (4 Folders)
Box 230 Folder 1
Comments, 1953
Box 230 Folder 2
Notes and Drafts, 1954
Publications
Box 230 Folder 3
Planning, 1954-1955
Box 230 Folder 4-5
"Studies in Sociology of Medical Education,", 1955-1956, (2 Folders)
Questionnaires
Box 230 Folder 6-7
Cornell University, 1952, (2 Folders)
Box 230 Folder 8
National Opinion Research Center, 1947-1948
Box 230 Folder 9
University of Pennsylvania, 1953-1954
Box 230 Folder 10
Western Reserve University, undated
Reports
Box 230 Folder 11
Drafts--Goss, Mary, 1952-1953
Box 230 Folder 12
Progress, 1956
Box 230 Folder 13
Western Reserve University, 1954
Requests
Box 231 Folder 1
Future Monographs, 1957-1958
Box 231 Folder 2
Lectures and Papers, 1955-1961
Box 231 Folder 3
Research Positions, 1953-1956
Box 231 Folder 4
Use of Data, 1952-1960
Box 231 Folder 5
Research Clippings, 1952-1956
Box 231 Folder 6-7
Sample of Findings, 1955, (2 Folders)
Box 231 Folder 8
Scheduled Free Time, 1955-1957
Seminar (Soc #319/320)
Box 231 Folder 9-10
General, 1951-1958, (2 Folders)
Box 232 Folder 1-5
General, 1951-1958, (5 Folders)
Box 232 Folder 6
Minutes, 1954-1955
Box 232 Folder 7
Student Projects, 1953
Box 232 Folder 8-9
Sociological Calendar of the First Year of Medical School, 1956-1958, (2 Folders)
Student Journals and Interviews
Box 233 Folder 1-4
General, 1952-1955, (4 Folders)
Box 233 Folder 5
Balsam, Alan, 1955
Box 233 Folder 6-7
Bloom, Samuel, 1954-1955, (2 Folders)
Box 233 Folder 8
Brooks, Dana, 1953-1954
Box 234 Folder 1-3
Brooks, Dana, 1953-1954, (3 Folders)
Box 234 Folder 4
Burns, Donald, 1953-1954
Box 234 Folder 5-6
McLellan, Lowell, 1953-1954, (2 Folders)
Box 234 Folder 7
Menninger, Walter, 1953-1957
Box 235 Folder 1-6
Menninger, Walter, 1953-1957, (6 Folders)
Box 236 Folder 1
Menninger, Walter, 1953-1957
Box 236 Folder 2
Rosenbach, Ronald, 1953-1954
Box 236 Folder 3
Weinberg, Saul, 1955
Box 236 Folder 4
Theoretical Ideas, 1952-1957
Working Papers
Box 236 Folder 5
General, 1956-1957
Box 236 Folder 6
Bloom, Samuel, 1955
Box 236 Folder 7
Glaser, William, 1958
Box 236 Folder 8
Glaser, William, and Emery, Jane, 1958
Box 236 Folder 9
Kendall, Patricia L., undated
Box 236 Folder 10-11
Levine, Gene, 1957, (2 Folders)
Box 409 Folder 9
Edward Condon Study--"Trial by Newspaper," 1949, 1981-1988, 1949, 1981-1988
Box 409 Folder 10
Eisenhower Mail Study-- Revival of Study, 1985-1992
Box 409 Folder 11
Hastings-on-Hudson Community Affairs--Pinecrest Drive: An Interracial Stable Neighborhood, 1952-1955, 1985, 1952-1955, 1985
Box 495 Folder 1
Analysis for FBI Unabom Task Force, 1995
Box 495 Folder 2
Housing Study--Craftown Follow Up Study, 1977