Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Stouffer and the GI survey : sociologists and soldiers during the Second World War / Joseph W. Ryan ; with an introduction by David R. Segal.

Author

Ryan, Joseph W., 1962-

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960.

Description

xxxi, 279 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Legacies of war series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Legacies of War.

Subjects

• World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Psychological aspects
• Military morale > United States
• Sociologists > United States > Biography
• Soldiers > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
• Soldiers > United States > Attitudes
• Social surveys > United States > History > 20th century
• United States > War Department > Information and Education Division > Research Branch > History
• Sociology, Military > United States > History > 20th century
• Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Samuel A. Stouffer and military sociology / David R. Segal -- Meet Sam Stouffer -- Stouffer in the interwar years -- Impulses and stimuli for the Research Branch -- The Research Branch rising -- The Research Branch refined -- Structure and findings of the American soldier -- Reception and criticism of the American soldier -- Stouffer, the Research Branch, and the American soldier postbellum -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781572339965 (hardcover)
• 1572339969 (hardcover)
• 1621909964
• 9781621909965

LCCN

^^2013021325

OCLC

• 849641503
• SCSB-12286809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library