Everett Cherrington Hughes

Everett Cherrington Hughes (born November 30, 1897 in Beaver , Ohio , USA ; † January 4, 1983 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA) was an American sociologist . Hughes had been married to Helen McGill Huges since 1927 , with whom he had two daughters.

Career

The Hughes couple are one of the prime examples of Robert E. Park's encouragement to young sociologists . Both were students at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and contemporaries of the well-known representatives of the Chicago School of Sociology Louis Wirth and Herbert Blumer . Both did their doctorates at Park, but Helen Hughes was relegated to a scientific assistant position in accordance with the gender roles prevailing at the time. She assisted her husband with research and scientific article writing, and was the underpaid editor of the recognized American Journal of Sociology for 17 years .

Hughes himself is considered a representative of the Chicago School and was best known for his research into the influence of race on the workplace. From 1938 to 1961 he was professor of sociology at the University of Chicago in Chicago ( Illinois , USA), from 1961 to 1968 at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts, and since 1968 at Boston College in Boston , Massachusetts.

Professional

In 1963 he was elected 53rd President of the American Sociological Association , and in 1964 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Personal

He died of Alzheimer's disease at Mount Auburn Hospital .

Fonts (selection)

• French Canada in transition , Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943
• Where peoples meet. Racial and ethnic frontiers , Glencoe: Free Press, 1952 (with Helen MacGill Hughes)
• Men and their work , Glencoe: Free Press, 1958
• The Chicago real estate board. The growth of an institution , New York: Arno Press, 1979.