Leonard Slater Cottrell
Leonard Slater Cottrell (born December 12, 1899 in Richmond, Virginia , † March 20, 1985 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina ) was an American sociologist and 40th President of the American Sociological Association .
Cottrell studied after the First World War at the Vanderbilt University to the Master -Examen sociology. Then he moved to the stronghold of this subject at the University of Chicago , where he qualified as a probation officer in addition to his professional activity . He experimented with the statistical methods that Ernest Burgess had developed for investigating criminals and applied them to research into family relationships. In 1935 he went to Cornell University as a sociology professor . During the Second World War , Cotrell carried out military-sociological research together with Samuel Andrew Stouffer . After the war ended, he returned to Cornell University. In 1951 he was a researcher at the Russell Sage Foundation for 17 years and at the end of his academic career he moved to Chapel Hill and taught at the University of North Carolina there for five years .
In 1950, Cotrell served as president of the American Sociological Association. Since 1957 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Leonard Slater Cottrell. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 28, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cottrell, Leonard Slater |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cottrell, Leonard Slater Jr .; Cottrell, Leonard S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond, Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1985 |
| Place of death | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |