Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960

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Personal name heading	Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Stouffer, Sam, 1900-1960 Stouffer, Samuel Andrew, 1900-1960
Birth date	1900-06-06
Death date	1960-08-24
Place of birth	Sac City, Iowa
Place of death	New York, N.Y.
Affiliation	University of Chicago University of Wisconsin United States. War Dept. Information and Education Division. Research Branch Harvard University
Profession or occupation	Sociologist
Found in	Research memorandum on the family in the Depression, 1937: title page (Samuel A. Stouffer, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago) Communism, conformity, and civil liberties, 1955: title page (Samuel A. Stouffer) Social research to test ideas, 1962: title page (Samuel A. Stouffer) Who was who in America, 1968 (Stouffer, Samuel Andrew; b. June 6, 1900; d. Aug. 24, 1960; instr. statistics, U. of Chicago, 1930-31; asst. prof. social statistics, U. of Wis., 1931-34, prof., 1934-35; at Harvard U., 1946-60) Samuel Stouffer and the GI survey, 2013: ECIP t.p. (Samuel Stouffer) galley (Sam Stouffer) Contemporary Authors Online, via WWW, September 27, 2012 (Samuel A(ndrew) Stouffer; also know as Samuel A. Stouffer, Samuel Andrew Stouffer, Samuel A(ndrew) Stouffer; born June 6, 1900 in Sac City, Iowa; son of Samuel Marcellus (editor and owner of Sac City Sun) and Irene (Holmes) Stouffer; Morningside College, Sioux City, IA, B.A., 1921; Harvard University, M.A., 1923; University of Chicago, Ph. D., 1930; Sac City Sun, Sac City, IA, editor and manager, 1923-1926; University of Chicago, instructor in statistics, 1930, professor of sociology, 1935-1946; University of Wisconsin, professor of social statistics, 1932-1935; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, director of the Laboratory of Social Relations/professor of sociology, 1946-1960; worked with various governmental agencies during the 1930s; worked as director of the Research Branch of the Information and Education Division of the United States Army, 1941-1946; died August 24, 1960 in New York, NY; Samuel A. Stouffer was an American sociologist and statistician best known for the research he conducted regarding the attitudes of soldiers during World War II; while working for the War Department during World War II, he directed an important series of studies on the attitudes of servicemen, the results of which were published in four volumes as The American Soldier: Studies in Social Psychology in World War II; this work earned Stouffer a reputation as an expert on survey research techniques)