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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Henry Landis, was an American sociologist. A prolific writer of over 20 books and 100 journal articles, Landis's work spanned the fields of rural sociology, Natural Resource Sociology, Sociology of Education, Adolescence, Social Control, and many other topics. Born in Cuba, Illinois, Landis was raised in a fundamentalist religious upbringing, before attending Greenville College and eventually the University of Michigan for a master's degree and The University of Minnesota for a PhD. After graduation from the University of Minnesota in 1931, Landis joined the faculty of South Dakota State University as an assistant professor in the Department of Rural Sociology. His PhD dissertation on Minnesota's Iron Range was published as the book Three Iron Mining Towns: a study in cultural change, now considered a landmark in Natural Resource Sociology. In 1935 he joined the faculty of the Washington State University , eventually becoming the official State Professor of Sociology, as well eventually Dean of the Graduate School at Washington State. Landis was elected and served as president of the Rural Sociological Society from 1945-1946.

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Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relations (1962) (60)
Internal migration in the United States. (1943) (31)
Making the most of marriage (1961) (30)
Rediscovering the Adolescent. (1938) (26)
Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change (1970) (24)
Rural life in process (1941) (22)
Toward Improving Ph.D. Programs. (1946) (22)
A Conception of Authority. (1945) (19)
Population problems : a cultural interpretation (1943) (16)
Adolescence and youth: (1946) (11)
Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution.@@@Social Control: Social Organization and Disorganization in Process. (1939) (11)
Your marriage and family living (1977) (7)
Population Problems: A Cultural Interpretation (1944) (6)
Research on Teen-Age Dating (1960) (6)
The Families that Produce Adjusted Adolescents (1955) (6)
Man in environment : an introduction to sociology (1949) (5)
Social Change and Social Interaction as Factors in Culture Change (1935) (5)
Marriage Preparation in Two Generations (1951) (4)
Social Policies in the Making (1952) (4)
Education and Distance of Migration of Youth (1945) (3)
Emerging Problems of the Aged (1942) (3)
The New Deal and Rural Life (1936) (3)
Three iron mining towns (1970) (3)
The Puritan Pronaos.@@@The Rise and Fall of the New Haven Colony. (1937) (2)
Probable Social Effects of Purchasing Submarginal Land in the Great Plains (1935) (2)
The Hop Industry, a Social and Economic Problem (1939) (2)
Social problems : in nation and world (1960) (2)
A Sociological View of the Youth Problem (1941) (2)
The Life Cycle of the Iron Mining Town (1934) (2)
Population Roads to Peace or War. (1946) (2)
Personal problems of the high school girl (1946) (2)
Man in Environment (1949) (2)
So this is college (1954) (2)
The Growth and Decline of South Dakota Trade Centers: 1901-1933 (1933) (2)
For Husbands and Wives (1957) (1)
Problems of Farm Youth—A Point of View (1940) (1)
Rural Sociology, third edition, by J. M. Gillette. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1936. Pp. xxxiv, 778. $4.50 (1936) (1)
Our Rural Communities: A Guidebook to Published Materials on Rural Problems. By Laverne Burchfield. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1947. 201 pp. $2.50 (1948) (1)
Sex Education: The Facts About 2 Generations: A study covering 307 college girls & their mothers (1950) (1)
They Walk in Shadow (1960) (1)
American Regionalism. A Cultural-Historical Approach to National Integration. By Howard W. Odum and Harry Estill Moore. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1938. 693 pp. $5.00. Student edition, $3.80 (1939) (1)
Problems in social living : a workbook to accompany the introductory sociology textbook entitled Social living by Landis and Landis (1941) (1)
Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States Carey McWilliams (1942) (1)
South Dakota Town-Country Trade Relations: 1901-1931 (1932) (1)
Social living : principles and problems in introductory sociology (1938) (0)
Natural and cultural factors in lethal selection. (1943) (0)
Divorce in the companionship family. (1947) (0)
The trend of the death rate. (1943) (0)
The Changing Family (1950) (0)
Seeking greater control of the birth rate. (1947) (0)
Fertility of rural and urban populations. (1943) (0)
Determinants of length of life. (1943) (0)
Book Review: All These People (1946) (0)
Culture and Human Fertility . Frank Lorimer. (1956) (0)
Your dating days : looking forward to successful marriage (1954) (0)
HAYES, WAYLAND J. The Small Community Looks Ahead. Pp. xii, 276. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1947. $3.00 (1947) (0)
Education and the Birth Rate: Facts show need for family-life education (1946) (0)
Social living : sociology and social problems (1961) (0)
Your Dating Days (1956) (0)
Our changing society, its social civic, and economic problems (1942) (0)
Internal Migration by Subsidy (1943) (0)
The youthful delinquent. (1947) (0)
Manual For Southern Regions. To accompany Southern Regions of the United States by Howard W. Odum. By Lee M. Brooks and others. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 194 pp. $1.00. Maps and tables (1938) (0)
Reproductive behavior (continued). (1943) (0)
Balancing class interests. (1947) (0)
Distribution of population by functional roles (continued). (1943) (0)
The child in the companionship family. (1947) (0)
On the Evolution of Dependency Mores in the Primary Group Under Federal Relief Agencies (1935) (0)
Distribution of population by functional roles. (1943) (0)
Management of the economy. (1947) (0)
The rural-urban distribution of the population. (1943) (0)
Social Problems in Nation and World.@@@Major Social Problems. (1960) (0)
Rural Relief in South Dakota, with Special Attention to Rural Relief Families under the New Deal Rural Relief Program (1934) (0)
The marginal man. (1947) (0)
The man of dark skin. (1947) (0)
The Birth Rates of Religious Groups (1948) (0)
Sex composition: Its causes and effects. (1943) (0)
Sex in the romantic family social system. (1947) (0)
Population as a field of sociological study. (1943) (0)
America's Own Refugees: Our 4,000,000 Homeless Migrants Henry Hill Collins, Jr. (1942) (0)
Population in world relations. (1947) (0)
Book Reviews : Sex Attitudes in the Home, Ralph G. Eckert. Pp. 242. New York, Association Press, 1956, $3.50 (1957) (0)
Book Reviews : Adolescent Development and Adjustment, Lester D. and Alice Crow. Pp. 555. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1956, $5.50 (1957) (0)
Institutional to companionship family. (1947) (0)
Rural-Urban Migration and the Marriage Rate--An Hypothesis (1946) (0)
The conservation of natural resources. (1947) (0)
“Social Problems” Course in High Schools (1943) (0)
Can Family Life Be Improved (1957) (0)
Understanding teen-agers (1955) (0)
Rural Relief and Recovery.@@@Migratory Cotton Pickers in Arizona.@@@The Drought Farmer Adjusts to the West.@@@Wilton, a Rural Town Near Metropolitan New York.@@@Rural Social Areas in Missouri. (1940) (0)
Book Reviews : Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, Arnold Gesell, Frances L. Ilg, and Louise Bates Ames. Pp. 542. New York, Harper, 1956, $5.95 (1956) (0)
Changing age composition and the population structure. (1943) (0)
Population Decline, Reality Or Bugaboo? (1944) (0)
Training Teachers for Family Life Education in High Schools (1948) (0)
Selective effects of internal migration. (1943) (0)
Providing economic security. (1947) (0)
Our Way Ahead: What Research Studies Show: These studies of family pattern, school type, and labor demand show need of more school democracy (1953) (0)
The Marriage and Family Studytour (1954) (0)
A population policy for the United States. (1943) (0)
Differential fertility of sociocultural groups. (1943) (0)
The small family pattern of the companionship family. (1947) (0)
Differential fertility and the survival of social classes. (1943) (0)
Relief Data as Criteria of Submarginality (1938) (0)
PARLIER, GERTRUDE DANA. and Others. Pursuits of War: The People of Char lottesville and Albemarle County, Vir ginia, in the Second World War. Pp. xxiv, 429. Charlottesville, Virginia: Albe marle County Historical Society, 1948. $3.50 (1949) (0)
The transition of adolescents and youth to maturity in the companionship family. (1947) (0)
Marriage and Family Interaction.@@@The Family, Marriage, and Social Change.@@@Making the Most of Marriage.@@@Marriage, the Family, and Personal Fulfillment. (1976) (0)
Primary to secondary groups. (1947) (0)
International migration as a factor in population problems. (1943) (0)
Factors producing the differential birth rate. (1943) (0)
Is There Room for the Next 1,000,000,000 People? (1953) (0)
The aged in the companionship family. (1947) (0)
Cultural Adjustments to the Mesabi Resources (1935) (0)
The personal casualty of social complexity. (1947) (0)
The Sociology of Rural Life. By T. Lynn Smith. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 595 pp. $3.50 (1940) (0)
International migration as a factor in the nation's population. (1943) (0)
150 Sex Question & Answers (1961) (0)
Mores versus social policies in controlled fertility. (1943) (0)
Race and nativity composition. (1943) (0)
Improving education as a means of adjustment. (1947) (0)
Personality in a transitional society. (1947) (0)
Introductory Sociology.@@@An Introduction to the Study of Society. (1958) (0)
The quest for longevity. (1947) (0)
Distribution of population by regions. (1943) (0)

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