About William Fielding Ogburn
Lived 1886 – 1959 (aged 72). William Fielding Ogburn was an American sociologist, statistician and university teacher.
William Fielding Ogburn (June 29, 1886 – April 27, 1959) was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He played a pivotal role in producing the groundbreaking Recent Social Trends during his research directorship of President Herbert Hoover's Committee on Social Trends from 1930 to 1933. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940.
He was one of the most prolific sociologists of his time, with 175 articles under his name.
Social change Perhaps Ogburn's most enduring intellectual legacy is the theory of social change he offered in 1922.
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American sociologist (1886–1959)
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William Fielding Ogburn was born on 29 June 1886 in Butler.
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William Fielding Ogburn died on 27 April 1959 in Tallahassee.
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William Fielding Ogburn was a sociologist, statistician and university teacher.
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