Edward Alsworth Ross

For other people with the same name, see Edward Ross (disambiguation).
Edward Alsworth Ross
From the George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Born
Edward Alsworth Ross

(1866-12-12)December 12, 1866
Virden, Illinois, US
DiedJuly 22, 1951(1951-07-22) (aged 84)
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Known for
  • Social Control (1901)
  • The Principles of Sociology (1920)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Doctoral advisorRichard T. Ely
Doctoral studentsC. Wright Mills

Edward Alsworth Ross (December 12, 1866 – July 22, 1951) was a progressive[1] American sociologist,[2] eugenicist,[3] economist,[4] and major figure of early criminology.[5]

  1. ^ Weinberg, Julius (1972). Edward Alsworth Ross and the Sociology of Progressivism, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
  2. ^ Hertzler, J. O. (1951). "Edward Alsworth Ross: Sociological Pioneer and Interpreter," Archived March 23, 2014, at the Wayback Machine American Sociological Review, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 597–613.
  3. ^ "The findings of the eugenicists quite naturally gave support to the opponents of further immigration. One of the most widely read books on this controversial issue was The Old World in the New, by Edward A. Ross [...] he believed in the conventional myth of Nordic supremacy and the need for a program of positive eugenics in order to preserve our Anglo-Saxon Americanism against pollution through immigration [...] [ending] with a chapter showing how 'Immigrant Blood' was slowly polluting the purer 'American Blood', as 'beaten members of the beaten breeds' swarmed over the beloved land of his own pioneer ancestors. Somewhat obsessed with race, Ross was of course convinced that 'the blood being injected into the veins of our people was sub-human'; the newer immigrants were 'morally below the races of northern Europe'; and that it all would end in 'Race Suicide'." — Baltzell, E. Digby (1964). The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America. Random House, p. 105.
  4. ^ Spellman, William E. (1979). "The Economics of Edward Alsworth Ross". American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 38 (2): 129–140. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.1979.tb02871.x. ISSN 1536-7150.
  5. ^ Rafter, Nicole H. (2009). "Edward Alsworth Ross: The System of Social Control, 1901," in The Origins of Criminology: A Reader, Routledge, p. 320.