George Elliot Howard

George Elliot Howard (born October 1, 1849 in Saratoga, New York , † June 9, 1928 in Lincoln, Nebraska ) was an American historian and sociologist and the seventh president of the American Sociological Association .

Howard took his bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska in 1867 and then studied history and Roman law in Munich and Paris for two years . On his return he became professor of history at the University of Nebraska in 1879. In 1891 he moved to Stanford University where he also taught history as a professor. In 1901 it gave up its activity in Stanford in protest against the resignation of his colleague Edward Alsworth Ross . Ross was fired for opposing the exploitation of Chinese workers in railway construction. Howard then worked at the University of Chicago , where he wrote his major three-volume work, History of Matrimonial Institutions .

In his academic work, Howard combined history and social sciences. He applied the method of historical sociology in particular to questions of family sociology , of which he is considered to be a pioneer.

Fonts (selection)

• Local Constitutional History of the United States , 1889
• The Evolution of the University , 1890
• The King's Peace and the Local Peace Magistracy , 1891
• History of Matrimonial Institutions , three volumes, 1904
• Preliminaries of the Revolution , 1905
• Social Control and Function of the Family , 1906
• General Sociology , 1907
• The Family and Marriage , 1914.

Web links

• Howard Online Biography of the American Sociological Association