Ruth Shonle Cavan
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Ruth Shonle Cavan's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Shonle Cavan was an American sociologist based at the University of Chicago. She specialized in deviance and criminology and was a leader of the Chicago school of sociology. According to Moyer :Ruth Shonle Cavan is recognized by most current criminologists as an extraordinary writer with analytical skills and the ability to synthesize the research in the field. One of the major strengths of her writings is her ability to build on the theoretical perspectives and methodologies of the Chicago School and to use other perspectives and methodologies when appropriate....[M]ost current criminologists only regard Cavan as a great textbook writer.
Ruth Shonle Cavan's Published Works
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Published Works
- Personal adjustment in old age (1949) (203)
- The American family (1953) (99)
- The Policeman in the Community. (1965) (56)
- The Family and the Depression: A Study of One Hundred Chicago Families (1971) (52)
- The Chicago School of Sociology, 1918-1933 (1983) (37)
- Unemployment: Crisis of the common man. (1959) (34)
- Families under Stress, Adjustment to the Crises of War Separation and Reunion. By Reuben Hill, with chapters in collaboration with Elise Boulding, assisted by Lowell Dunigan and Rachel Ann Elder. New York: Harper and Bros., 1949. 443 pp. $4.40 (1950) (28)
- Delinquency and crime; cross-cultural perspectives (1968) (27)
- CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY IN INTERRELIGIOUS MARRIAGE (1970) (25)
- Children's Fears, Dreams, Wishes, Daydreams, Likes, Dislikes, Pleasant and Unpleasant Memories.Arthur T. Jersild , Frances V. Markey , Catherine L. Jersild (1935) (19)
- Note on the Statistical Treatment of Life-History Material (1930) (16)
- The Concepts of Tolerance and Contraculture as Applied to Delinquency (1961) (14)
- Readings in juvenile delinquency. (1964) (14)
- Topical Summaries of Current Literature: Interviewing for Life-History Material (1929) (14)
- Speculations on innovations to conventional marriage in old age. (1973) (12)
- Marriage and family in the modern world (1965) (12)
- Marital Relationships of Prisoners (1958) (11)
- Negro Family Disorganization and Juvenile Delinquency (1959) (11)
- The Questionnaire in a Sociological Research Project (1933) (10)
- Juvenile delinquency : development, treatment, control (1975) (9)
- Is Special Treatment Needed For Elderly Offenders? (1987) (9)
- A Dating-Marriage Scale of Religious Social Distance (1971) (9)
- Family Life and Family Substitutes in Old Age (1949) (8)
- Marital Relationships of Prisoners in Twenty-Eight Countries (1958) (8)
- The Short-Term Prisoner (1964) (8)
- Roles of the Old in Personal and Impersonal Societies. (1978) (6)
- The mind of youth. (1932) (6)
- Underworld, Conventional and Ideological Crime (1964) (6)
- A Study of High School Marriages (1958) (6)
- Family Tensions between the Old and the Middle-Aged (1956) (6)
- The Wish Never to Have Been Born (1932) (6)
- Jewish Student Attitudes Toward Interreligious and Intra-Jewish Marriage (1971) (5)
- Youth Tell Their Story: A Study of the Conditions and Attitudes of Young People in Maryland Between the Ages of 16 and 24.Howard M. Bell (1939) (4)
- American marriage : a way of life (1959) (4)
- The Policeman in the Community. By Michael Banton. New York: Basic Books, 1964. 276 pp. Tables. $5.50 (1965) (3)
- Communes: Historical and Contemporary (1979) (3)
- THE ATTITUDES OF YOUNG BUSINESS WOMEN TOWARD HOME AND MARRIED LIFE (1927) (3)
- The adolescent in American psychology and sociology. (1930) (3)
- CHARACTER EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1927) (3)
- The Relation of Home Background and Social Relations to Personality Adjustment (1934) (2)
- The Family, as Process and Institution (1955) (2)
- Marriage and family in the modern world: readings (1974) (2)
- Education and the Business Girl (1929) (2)
- Leadership Among High School Pupils.Marion Brown (1)
- Book Review:Criteria for Retirement: A Report of a National Conference on Retirement of Older Workers. Geneva Mathiasen (1954) (1)
- Youth-Millions Too Many? (1940) (1)
- Methods of Studying Personality (1932) (1)
- Public and Private Areas and the Survival of Communal Subsocieties (1984) (1)
- Criminology@@@The Crime Problem (1956) (1)
- Diagnosing Personality and Conduct.Percival M. Symonds (1933) (1)
- The Female World.Jessie Bernard (1983) (1)
- Marriage and family in the modern world : a book of readings (1971) (1)
- From Social Movement to Organized Society: the Case of the Anabaptists (1977) (1)
- The Veteran and His Marriage. (1946) (1)
- EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY—A NEW FOUNDATION SCIENCE (1928) (1)
- Mental Hygiene in the Community.Clara Bassett (1)
- The Behavior of Young Children, III: "Children with Materials"; "Children with Other Children.". Ethel B. Waring , Marguerite Wilker (1934) (1)
- Regional Family Patterns: The Middle Western Family (1948) (1)
- How personality develops. (1932) (0)
- The emotional balance wheel. (1932) (0)
- Book Review:The Suicide Problem in the United States. Adolph Pominic Frenay (1927) (0)
- Book Review:Character and Personality of Children from Broken Homes. Nehemiah Wallenstein (1939) (0)
- Crime, Suicide and Social Well-Being in Your State and City. By Austin L. Porterfield, Robert H. Talbert, and Herbert R. Mundhanke. Leo Potishman Foundation Publications in the Social Sciences. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1948. 121 pp. $2.25 (1950) (0)
- Personality in Its Teens.W. Ryland Boorman (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Parenthood in a Democracy. Margaret Lighty, Leroy E. Bowman (1941) (0)
- Our Young Folks.Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1944) (0)
- The Unemployed.Eli Ginzberg (1945) (0)
- Book Review:Child Workers in America. Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Dorothy Wolff Douglas (1939) (0)
- Book Review:The Family Meets the Depression: A Study of a Group of Highly Selected Families. Winona L. Morgan (1940) (0)
- Book Review:Religious Belief and Character Among Jewish Adolescents. Abraham N. Franzblau (1939) (0)
- The girl and her family. (1932) (0)
- Book Review:The End of Hope: A Social-Clinical Study of Suicide. Arthur L. Kobler, Ezra Stotland (1966) (0)
- Adjustment Problems of the Older Woman (1952) (0)
- Book Review:The Family, Its Organization and Disorganization. Ernest R. Mowrer (1932) (0)
- Book Review:The Psychology of Adolescence: Behavior and Development. John E. Horrocks (1952) (0)
- Activity Inventory 1949 (1982) (0)
- Selected Readings in the Latter-Day Saint Family (1966) (0)
- Goals: Marriage and the job. (0)
- The Road to Adolescence.Joseph GarlandChildren of the New Day.Katherine Glover , Evelyn DeweyAdolescence, Life's Spring Cleaning Time.Beverley R. Tucker (1935) (0)
- Book Review:Adventuring in Adoption. Lee M. Brooks, Evelyn C. Brooks (1941) (0)
- Book Review:Child Psychology for Professional Workers. Florence M. Teagarden (1942) (0)
- Book Review:The Quakers: Their Story and Message. A. Neave Bradshaw (1927) (0)
- Children and Their Parents.Maud E. Watson (1933) (0)
- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Behavior-Problem Children.Harry J. Baker , Virginia TraphagenIntra-Family Relationships and Pupil Adjustment.Theodore R. MyersMeasurement of the Personality Adjustments of High School Pupils.Percival M. Symonds , Claude E. Jackson (1937) (0)
- Book Review:Experimental Child Study. Florence L. Goodenough, John E. Anderson (1933) (0)
- Book Review:Social Science and Psychotherapy for Children. Otto Pollak (1953) (0)
- Book Review:Child Care and Training. Marion L. Faegre, John E. Anderson (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Suicides in Seattle, 1914 to 1925: An Ecological and Behavioristic Study. Calvin Schmid (1929) (0)
- The period of youth. (1932) (0)
- The Delinquent Child. (1934) (0)
- The Dependent Boy: A Comparative Analysis of Three Groups of Boys Living Under Widely Different Conditions in Reference to a Selected Number of Non-Intellectual Traits.James F. Murphy (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Personal and Social Adjustment. Willis L. Uhl, Francis F. Powers (1939) (0)
- Book Review:The Fate of the Family in the Modern World. Arthur E. Holt (1939) (0)
- The Illegitimate Child in Illinois.@@@State Administration of Child Welfare in Illinois. (1938) (0)
- Book Review:Our Children in a Changing World. Erwin Wexberg, Henry E. Fritsch (1939) (0)
- A Classified Bibliography of Gerontology and Geriatrics.@@@Trends in Gerontology. (1951) (0)
- International development : sharing concerns; a conference, Toronto, Apr. 30-May 1, 1987 (1987) (0)
- Development in Adolescence: Approaches to the Study of the Individual.Harold E. Jones , Staff of the Adolescent Growth Study, Institute of Child Welfare, University of California (1945) (0)
- Impressions of the Young Women's Christian Association (1929) (0)
- Character Education.Harry C. McKown (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Crooked Personalities in Childhood and After. Raymond B. Cattell (1940) (0)
- Book Review:The Psychology of Parent-Child Relationships. Percival M. Symonds (1940) (0)
- Book Review:Suicide: A Sociological and Statistical Study. Louis I. Dublin (1965) (0)
- Book Review:Growth and Development of the Young Child. Winifred Rand, Mary E. Sweeny, E. Lee Vincent (1942) (0)
- Book Review:A Scale for Measuring Social Adequacy. Mary Josephine McCormick (1931) (0)
- American Marriage: A Way of Life.@@@Courtship and Marriage. (1960) (0)
- Book Review:Piloting Your Life: The Psychologist as Helmsman Joseph Jastrow (1931) (0)
- Book Review:The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child. Carl R. Rogers (1940) (0)
- Autobiography of a Suicide. (1936) (0)
- Book Reviews : Troublemakers: Rebellious Youth in an Affluent Society, T. R. Fyvel. Pp. 347. New York, Schocken Books, 1962, $4.95 (1963) (0)
- Cavan Attitude Inventory 1949 (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Why Do We Do as We Do? J. B. Hollis Tegarden (1930) (0)
- Book Review:Training Youth for the New Social Order. Rudolph R. Reeder (1934) (0)
- International Review of Criminal Policy, No. 13 (ST/SOA/Ser.M/13) (1960) (0)
- Aging Successfully.George Lawton (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Case Studies of Normal Adolescent Girls. Elsie M. Smithies (1935) (0)
- Book Review:The Diabolic Root: A Study of Peyotism, the New Indian Religion, Among the Delawares. Vincenzo Petrullo (1935) (0)
- Child Psychology: A Bibliography of Books in English Annotated and Classified Under Child Study; Children, Abnormal and Backward; Children; Management; Education of Children; Juvenile Delinquency; Parent and Child.Floyd Hardin , Eulalia Dougherty Chapman , Letha Belle Hill (1940) (0)
- Book Review:The Relationship Between Characteristics of Personality and Physique in Adolescents. P. S. DeQ. Cabot (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Learning in Preschool and Orphanage Children. Katherine Elliott Roberts (1935) (0)
- Book Review: Suicide (1952) (0)
- Knowledge about Parent-Child Relationships (1941) (0)
- Book Review:A Study of Twenty-Five Adolescent Unmarried Mothers in New York City. Enid Severy Smith (1939) (0)
- Hebrew Marriage: A Sociological Study. By David R. Mace. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. 271 pp. $6.00 (1954) (0)
- Book Reviews : Society, Crime, and Criminal Careers—An Introduction to Criminology, Don C. Gibbons. Pp. 564. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1968. $7.95 (1969) (0)
- The Peyote Cult.Weston La Barre (1939) (0)
- Book Review:The Measurement of Social Status by the Use of the Social Status Scale 1933. F. Stuart Chapin (1935) (0)
- Book Review : Juvenile Delinquency and Corrections: The Gap Between Theory and Practice. James O. Finckenauer. Academic Press, Inc., 1984. 240 pp. paper (1986) (0)
- Researches in Parent Education.Katherine Wood Hattendorf , Ralph H. Ojemann , Hazel Spencer Schaus , Lois M. Jack , Gertrude Hill Nystrom , Laura L. Remer (1935) (0)
- Attitude Inventory 1949 (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Psycho-Analysis for Teachers and Parents. Anna Freud (1936) (0)
- Schopenhauer, Pessimist and Pagan.V. J. McGill (1932) (0)
- Proceedings of the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.International Committee for Mental Hygiene (1935) (0)
- Book Review:Growing Up with Our Children: For the Parents of Teen Age Young People. W. H. Burger (1933) (0)
- Individuality and Social Restraint.George Ross Wells (1930) (0)
- Book Review:Influence of Social and Economic Factors on the Health of the School Child. Raymond Franzen (1933) (0)
- Book Review:Bladder Control in Infancy and Early Childhood. Hjalmar Fletcher Scoe (1936) (0)
- Book Review:To Be or Not to Be. A Study of Suicide. Louis I. Dublin, Bessie Bunzel (1935) (0)
- Character in the Making.Paul F. Voelker (1936) (0)
- Book Review:Helping Older People Enjoy Life. James H. Woods (1954) (0)
- Egypt.George Young (1929) (0)
- Post-War Progress in Child Welfare. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. (1931) (0)
- Book Review:The Companionships of Preschool Children. Elizabeth Pleger Hagman (1935) (0)
- Book Review:The C.C.C. Through the Eyes of 272 Boys. Helen M. Walker (1940) (0)
- Book Review:An Outline of Careers for Women: A Practical Guide to Achievement. Doris E. Fleischman (0)
- Book Review:A Scale for Measuring Developmental Age in Girls. Celestine Sullivan (1935) (0)
- Youth After Conflict.Goodwin Watson (1949) (0)
- The Saleslady.Frances R. Donovan (0)
- An adequate philosophy of life. (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Essentials in Interviewing: For the Interviewer Offering Professional Services. Anne F. Fenlason (1953) (0)
- A Handbook of Child Psychology.Carl Murchison (1932) (0)
- Practical Psychology in Character Development.Vera Barclay (1936) (0)
- Education for Home and Family Life, Part I: "In Elementary and Secondary Schools.". (1934) (0)
- Book Review:The Young Child in the Home. John E. Anderson (1939) (0)
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