Howard W. Odum
American sociologist
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Howard W. Odum's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard Washington Odum was an American sociologist and author who researched African-American life and folklore. Beginning in 1920, he served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, founding the university press, the journal Social Forces, and what is now the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, all in the 1920s. He also founded the university's School of Public Welfare, one of the first in the Southeast. With doctorates in psychology and sociology, he wrote extensively across academic disciplines, influencing several fields and publishing three novels in addition to 20 scholarly texts. He was white.
Howard W. Odum's Published Works
Published Works
- Southern Regions of the United States (1936) (129)
- American regionalism : a cultural-historical approach to national integration (1938) (65)
- American sociology : the story of sociology in the United States through 1950 (1951) (58)
- Social Change in the South (1948) (51)
- Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes (1911) (30)
- The way of the South (1947) (23)
- An introduction to social research (1930) (22)
- Notes on the Technicways in Contemporary Society (1937) (19)
- The Negro And His Songs (16)
- American Social Problems (1939) (15)
- The Integration of American Society (1941) (12)
- The Case for Regional-National Social Planning (1934) (12)
- The way of the South : toward the regional balance of America (1947) (9)
- Race and Rumors of Race (1943) (9)
- An American epoch : Southern portraiture in the national picture (9)
- Folk Sociology as a Subject Field for the Historical Study of Total Human Society and the Empirical Study of Group Behavior (1953) (9)
- Regionalism VS. Sectionalism in the South's Place in the National Economy (1934) (8)
- A University Plan (1922) (8)
- Negro Children in the Public Schools of Philadelphia (1913) (8)
- In search of the regional balance of America (1947) (7)
- American Sociology: The Story of Sociology in the United States through 1950 (1952) (7)
- Sociology and social problems (6)
- Civilization and society : an account of the development and behavior of human society (1932) (6)
- Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as Found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes (Concluded) (1911) (5)
- From Community Studies to Regionalism (1945) (5)
- Rainbow Round My Shoulder (5)
- Sociology Surveyed. (Book Reviews: American Sociology: The Story of Sociology in the United States to 1950) (1952) (4)
- Newer Ideals of Public Welfare (1923) (4)
- Notes on the Study of Regional and Folk Society (1931) (4)
- American social problems : an introduction to the study of the people and their dilemmas (1946) (3)
- On Diagnosis and Direction in Certain National and Southern Issues in the United States (1954) (3)
- Standards of Measurement for Race Development (3)
- Problem and Methodology in an American Dilemma (1944) (3)
- Patrick Geddes' Heritage to “The Making of the Future” (1944) (3)
- A Sociological Approach to the Study and Practice of American Regionalism: A Factorial Syllabus (1942) (3)
- The Errors of Sociology (1937) (3)
- Man's quest for social guidance : the study of social problems (3)
- Regional Development and Governmental Policy (1939) (3)
- Sociology in the Contemporary World of Today and Tomorrow (1943) (2)
- Man's quest for social guidance (2)
- Frontiers of Social Work (1926) (2)
- The Regional Quality and Balance of America (1945) (2)
- An Approach To Public Welfare And Social Work (2)
- On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs@@@The Negro and His Songs (1925) (2)
- The Culture of Cities.@@@American Regionalism. (1938) (2)
- Changing Requirements for the Doctor's Degree (1927) (1)
- Some Studies in the Negro Problems of the Southern States (1)
- Edwin H. Sutherland 1883–1950 (1951) (1)
- A Study of War (1943) (1)
- A New Deal Popular Bookshelf: How Much Social Realism, How Much Social Science, How Much Grinding Grist? (1934) (1)
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. By Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1948. 804 pp. $6.50 (1948) (1)
- Toward the Dynamic Study of Jewish Culture (1951) (1)
- Requirments for the Master's Degree: Report of Committee M (1932) (1)
- Luther Lee Bernard1881–1951 (1951) (1)
- Edward Alsworth Ross: 1866–1951—An Editorial (1951) (1)
- Attainable Standards for State Departments of Public Welfare (1923) (1)
- Positions for Trained Social Workers in the Field of Public Welfare (1923) (1)
- The State of Sociology in the United States and its Prospect in the South (1938) (0)
- Man and His Habitation. By Radhakamal Mukerjee. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1940. 320 pp (1942) (0)
- Ernest R. Groves and his Work (1946) (0)
- Public welfare in the United States . Child welfare (0)
- America in Midpassage.@@@Society in Transition.@@@American Social Problems.@@@Tomorrow in the Making. (1939) (0)
- Communography, Communometry, Communology (1928) (0)
- A Science Defined in Retrospect (1951) (0)
- Experience-Worlds of Mountain People. A Study of Hinterland and Village Life in the Southern Appalachians. By M. Taylor Matthews. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1937. 210 pp. $2.25 (1938) (0)
- The Duel to the Death (1925) (0)
- NEW SOURCES OF VITALITY FOR THE PEOPLE1 (1938) (0)
- The Promise of the Social Sciences, Continued (1926) (0)
- The Search After Values (1926) (0)
- A Southerner Discovers the South. By Jonathan Daniels. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. 346 pp. $3.00 (1938) (0)
- Social Theory and Swing and Rhythm@@@Understanding Society. The Principles of Dynamic Sociology@@@The Way of the South. Toward the Regional Balance of America (1950) (0)
- "Out of the Day's Work" (1946) (0)
- America: States and Regions (1938) (0)
- Where the Sociologist and Social Worker Begin (1934) (0)
- Reading, Writing, and Leadership (1923) (0)
- The Promise of the Social Sciences (1926) (0)
- Race Tensions and Their Consequences (1944) (0)
- Fundamental Principles Underlying Inter-racial Co-operation (1923) (0)
- Testing Field for Regionalism and Nationalism (1934) (0)
- The Position of the Negro in the American Social Order in 1950 (1939) (0)
- Community Organization.@@@Systems of Public Welfare. (1926) (0)
- New Setting for English Teaching. II. Social Changes (1934) (0)
- Notes on Recent Trends in the Application of the Social Sciences (1933) (0)
- History of American Psychology. By A. A. Roback. New York: Library Publishers, Inc., 1952. 426 pp. $6.00 (1953) (0)
- The “Scientific-Human” in Social Research (1929) (0)
- The Old South: The Geographic, Economic, Social, Political, and Cultural Expansion, Institutions, and Nationalism of the Anti-Bellum South@@@Southern Regions of the United States (1937) (0)
- The PhD. Degree and the Doctor's Dissertation in Sociology and Anthropology (1952) (0)
- Black and White@@@The Negro in Modern Industrial Society.@@@Negro Membership in American Labor Unions.@@@The Negro Wage Earner.@@@The Black Worker.@@@Black Manhattan.@@@Black America.@@@The Negro in Washington.@@@Negro: National Asset or Liability.@@@Race Mixture. (1931) (0)
- Southern industry and regional development (1942) (0)
- Orderly Transitional Democracy (1935) (0)
- The More Perfect Union. By R. M. MacIver. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 296 pp. $4.00 (1949) (0)
- Wings on My Feet (0)
- New sources of vitality for the people. (1938) (0)
- Books of the Year and Selected New Books in the Social Field (1928) (0)
- The New Setting for English Teaching: I. Industrial-Economic Life (1933) (0)
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