Background
Ross, Edward Alsworth was born on December 12, 1866 in Virden, Illinois, United States. Son of William Carpenter and Rachel (Alsworth) Ross.
Ross, Edward Alsworth was born on December 12, 1866 in Virden, Illinois, United States. Son of William Carpenter and Rachel (Alsworth) Ross.
Bachelor of Arts, Coe College, Iowa, 1886. University of Berlin, 1888-1889. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1891.
Doctor of Laws, Coe, 1911.
Professor economics, Indiana University, 1891-1892. Associate professor political economy and finance, Cornell, 1892-1893. Professor sociology. Stanford, 1893-1900, University of Nebraska, 1901-1906, University of Wisconsin, 1906-1937.
Lecturer on sociology Harvard, 1902, University of Chicago, 1896, 1905.
Director of education, The Floating University,” 1928-1929, Northwestern University, 1939. President American Sociological Society, 1914 and 1915.
Secretary American Economics Association, 1892-1893. Advisory editor American Journal of Sociology, since 1895.
Member Institut International de Sociologie, Phi Beta Kappa.
Author: Honest Dollars, 1896. Social Control, 1901. The Foundations of Sociology, 1905.
Sin and Society, 1907.
Social Psychology, 1908. Latter Day Sinners and Saints, 1910.
The Changing Chinese, 1911. Changing America, 1912.
The Old World in the New, 1914.
South of Panama, 1915. Russia in Upheaval, 1918. What is America?, 1919, The Principles of Sociology, 1920, 30, 38.
The Russian Bolshevik Revolution, 1921.
The Social Trend, 1922. The Social Revolution in Mexico, 1923.
The Outlines of Sociology, 1923. The Russian Soviet Republic, 1923.
Roads to Social Peace, 1924, Reports on the Employment of Native Labor in Portuguese Africa, 1925.
Civic Sociology, 1925, 33. Standing Room Only?, 1927. World Drift, 1928; Seventy Years of lieutenant, 1936.
New Age Sociology, 1940.
Participant author: Changes in the Size of American Families in One Generation, 1924. Readings in Civic Sociology, 1926.
Contributor of numerous articles to economics and sociological journals and literature periodicals. Home: 3545 Topping Road, Shorewood, Madison Wisconsin‡.
Member Institut International de Sociologie, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Rosamond C. Simons, June 16, 1892. Married second, Helen Forbes, September 29, 1940. Children: Frank Alsworth, Gilbert, Lester Ward.