How Robert M. MacIver was forgotten: Columbia and American sociology in a new light, 1929-1950.
It is necessary to reevaluate the role of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in the years 1929-1950. The impact of Robert M. MacIver, who played a significant role in the exchange between European and American thinkers, is examined, as well as his marginalization. It is argued that in the 1930s it was characteristic that the sociologists in the centers in Chicago and Columbia exchanged their disciplinary functions. It was MacIver's Columbia that took on the role of advocate of humanistic sociology and Mead's and Cooley's heritage.
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Department of Sociology, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. halas@kul.lublin.pl
D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D012961:Sociology / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States