Showing papers by "Anselm L. Strauss published in 1958"
TL;DR: The complexity of the city calls for symbolic management and its complicated spatial features require representation in the form of devices for simplifying and for evoking images and sentimet.
Abstract: The complexity of the city calls for symbolic management. Its complicated spatial features require representation in the form of devices for simplifying and for evoking images and sentimet. Verbal representation of cities has a formal nature. The availabel devices are popularly, frequently, and flexibly used. They are collective, as well as personal, representation.
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TL;DR: The world of social science lost a brilliant citizen when Richard Wohl died of cancer on the morning of November 15, 1957 as mentioned in this paper. He was but thirty-six years of age-not yet old enough to leave the impressive body of work that his friends are certain he would have left had he lived, but not too young to leave a lasting mark upon his colleagues through his presence and his writing.
Abstract: The world of social science lost a brilliant citizen when Richard Wohl died of cancer on the morning of November 15, 1957. He was but thirty-six years of age-not yet old enough to leave the impressive body of work that his friends are certain he would have left had he lived, but not too young to leave a lasting mark upon his colleagues through his presence and his writing. He had an unusual intellectual situation at the University of Chicago, stemming from the nature of his training and the bent of his mind. One of the first to receive a degree in social science at Harvard-following a course of study organized by himself with the advice of such faculty friends as Arthur H. Cole-he specialized in economic development and entrepreneurial history. Earlier, under the influence of Thomas Cochran, he had majored in economics at New York University; later he had received his Master's degree from Yale in the same field. He was a valued member of Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, during 1948-49 its rapporteur, and later the editor of its discussions under the title Change and the Entrepreneur (Harvard University Press, 1949). He proposed that the Center found an exploratory journal, and, as a result, he jointly edited with H. G. Aitken its publication Explorations in Entrepreneurial History. When he was brought to the University of Chicago, he helped found the Research Center for Economic Development and Cultural Change as well as that immensely useful journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change. His deepest interest during his last years, however, lay in social history (even his doctoral work, of which a version can be found in William Miller's Men in Business [Harvard University Press, 1952], bears the impress of this interest); and one suspects that this lay at the bottom of his specializing-if the word is appropriate-in social science while at Harvard. Before he left that university he had begun his studies of the Horatio Alger tradition and of success ideologies of nineteenth-century America. He published only one paper from this material before his death, \"The 'Rags to Riches Story': An Episode of Secular Idealism,\" in Class, Status and Power, edited by R. Bendix and S. Lipset (Free Press, 1953). This research apparently led him in two directions-one, the study of popular culture. During the winter of 1956-57 he conducted an absorbing seminar on this topic, using notes from which he anticipated writing a book. (He did publish one paper, with Donald Horton, \"Mass Comunication and Para-social Interaction,\" which appeared in Psychiatry. Vol. XIX [1956].) At the same time he gave a number of delightful weekly lectures on American popular culture and social history over Chicago's educational television station. The second direction toward which his research turned was urban history. On a threeyear grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he organized a project at Kansas City, Missouri, to study the history of that town. His research group consists of Theodore Brown, Charles Glaab, and Mildred Cox. Richard Wohl's writing of urban history embodied the skills and perspectives of his interdisciplinary training. When the project, which today continues under his research group, comes to a close, it is to be expected that something unique will have arrived on the
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