Thomas, Dorothy Swaine /
Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899-1977) was a sociologist, demographer, and social statistician. She has been described as "the most successful woman sociologist of her generation" (Bannister, 1998, p. 226). She produced her first publications while still an undergraduate, coauthoring these with...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899-1977) was a sociologist, demographer, and social statistician. She has been described as "the most successful woman sociologist of her generation" (Bannister, 1998, p. 226). She produced her first publications while still an undergraduate, coauthoring these with William Fielding Ogburn (Ogburn & Thomas, 1922a, 1922b). In one of these, she pioneered the use of time-series data to document the social effects of business cycles, developing this further in studying for her doctorate at the London School of Economics (LSE), for which she was awarded the Hutchinson Silver Medal. Later, she worked with William I. Thomas in producing The Child in America (Thomas & Thomas, 1928), a book renowned today for what was labelled "the Thomas theorem": that people's perceptions of situations, even [...]. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529749151 1529749158 9781526421036 1526421038 |