Manuel Conrad Elmer

Manuel Conrad Elmer also in the spelling variants Manuel C. Elmer , MC Elmer (born December 5, 1886 in Monroe , Green County , Wisconsin , † April 1, 1988 in Pittsburgh , Allegheny County , Pennsylvania ) was an American sociologist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Manuel Conrad Elmer, son of John Elmer and his Wife Anne denier, received after attending the public schools in 1911 the Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry and Mathematics from Northwestern College in Naperville in the state of Illinois . The following year he earned a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Illinois . Encouraged by the economics professor at the University of Illinois David Kinley, Elmer then enrolled at the newly established Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago , where he was one of the first students in 1914 with a thesis entitled “Social Surveys of Urban Communities "for Ph. D. in Sociology PhD .

Manuel Conrad Elmer, a member of the Presbyterian Church , married June Maud Ashley (1885–1986) on September 3, 1914. This connection resulted in the daughters Anne-June Strong, Patricia Ashley Appel and the son Glaister Ashley. Elmer, who lives in Edgewood near Pittsburgh, died in the spring of 1986 at the age of 101. He was buried in Golden Cemetery in Golden , Colorado .

academic career

Manuel Conrad Elmer began his academic career in 1914 as Professor of Sociology and Economics at Fargo College in Fargo , North Dakota , and in 1916 he moved to the University of Kansas in Lawrence as Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Sociological Surveys . In 1919 he followed a call from the University of Minnesota, where he was appointed Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work , in 1926 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh , where the professor of Sociology was appointed head of the department of the same name. In addition, he held the position of Director of the Graduate Division of Social Work there from 1932 to 1938 . Manuel Conrad Elmer also worked from 1957 to 1958 as a professor at the Western College for Women in Oxford in the state of Ohio and in 1964 as a visiting professor of sociology at Howard College in Big Spring in the state of Texas .

Manuel Conrad Elmer, who stood out in particular through family- sociological treatises, was a member of the American Sociological Society , the Kappa Delta Pi, the Pi Gamma Mu and the Delta Sigma Pi. Elmer, who also wrote several monographs , was awarded a Doctor of Humanities (HHD) from Marietta College in 1954 .

Fonts

• Social survey of Fargo, North Dakota, Fargo College, Fargo, ND, 1915
• Social statistics; statistical methods applied to sociology, Jesse Ray Miller, Los Angeles, 1926
• Technique of social surveys, 3d ed., Jesse Ray Miller, Los Angeles, 1927
• Family adjustment and social change, R. Long & RR Smith, New York, 1932
• with Verne Wright: General sociology; an introductory book, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1939
• The sociology of the family, in: Social science series, ed. By RM MacIver, Ginn, Boston, 1945
• Cultural Changes in Venezuela, 1953
• First steps in social research. Los primeros pasos en el resúmen social, 1954
• Contemporary social thought: contributors and trends, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1956
• Timber, America's magic resource, Christopher Pub. House, Boston, 1961
• The passing of the red table cloth, 1965

literature

• Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. : volume XII, Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1946, p. 371.
• Alfred McClung Lee, Elizabeth Briant Lee: Social problems in America: a source book, 2nd ed., H. Holt, New York, 1955, p. 150.
• Leaders in American science, Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1958, p. 114.
• Who was who in America. : volume VII, 1977-1981 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 178.
• Frank Dietrich, Albert Dietrich, Christine Dietrich, Scott H. Bennett: Army GI, pacifist CO: the World War II letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich, in: World War II - the global, human, and ethical dimension, 4., Fordham University Press, New York, 2005, p. 343. Google books

Web links

• Manuel Conrad Elmer in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Literature by and about Manuel Conrad Elmer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Guide to the Manuel Conrad Elmer Papers 1907-1980 in University of Chicago Library