Background
Sheldon, Eleanor Harriet Bernert was born on March 19, 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of M.G. and Fannie (Myers) Bernert.
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Includes many original contributions by an assembly of distinguished social scientists. They set forth the main features of a changing American society: how its organization for accomplishing major social change has evolved, and how its benefits and deficits are distributed among the various parts of the population. Theoretical developments in the social sciences and the vast impact of current events have contributed to a resurgence of interest in social change; in its causes, measurement, and possible prediction. These essays analyze what we know, and examine what we need to know in the study, prediction, and possible control of social change.
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Sheldon, Eleanor Harriet Bernert was born on March 19, 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of M.G. and Fannie (Myers) Bernert.
Associate of Arts, Colby Junior College, 1940. Bachelor of Arts North Carolina, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1949.
Assistant demographer, Office Population Research, Washington, 1942-1943; social scientist, USDA, Washington, 1943-1945; associate director, Chicago Community Inventory, University of Chicago, 1947-1950; social scientist, Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1950-1951; research grantee, Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1953-1955; president, Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1972-1979; research associate Bureau Applied Social Research, Columbia University, 1950-1951; lecturer sociology, Columbia University, 1951-1952; visiting professor, Columbia University, 1969-1971; social scientist, United Nations, New York City, 1951-1952; research associate, lecturer sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1955-1961; associate research sociologist, lecturer School Nursing, University of California, 1957-1961; sociologist, executive associate, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 1961-1972; visiting professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971. Director Equitable Life Assurance Society, Mobil Corporation, H.J. Heinz Company.
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Board directors Colby-Sawyer College, 1979-1985, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1973-1979. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation, 1978-1985, National Opinion Research Center, 1980-1987, Institute East-West Security Studies, 1984-1988, American assembly, 1976-1995. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Sociological Association, American Statistical Association.
Member University Chicago Alumni Association (Professional Achievement award), Sociological Research Association (president 1971-1972), Council on Foreign Relations, American Association Public Opinion Research, Eastern Sociological Society, International Sociological Association, International Union Science Study of Population, Population Association American (Second vice president 1970-1971), Institute of Medicine (chairman program committee 1976-1977), Cosmopolitan Club.
Married James Sheldon, March 19, 1950 (divorced 1960). Children: James, John Anthony.