Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Christopher Sower Papers
UA.17.223
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
- Creator
- Michigan State University. Highway Traffic Safety Center.
- Creator
- Miller, Paul A., 1917-2015
- Creator - Donor
- Sower, Christopher
- Creator
- United States Information Service.
- Title
- Christopher Sower papers
- ID
- UA.17.223
- Date [inclusive]
- 1951-1991
- Extent
- 6.0 Cubic feet
- Language
- English
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."
Biographical/Historical
Christopher Sower was born June 1, 1912 in Manistee, Michigan. He completed high school in Spencer, Ohio in 1929. He received a Bachelor of Education at Ashland College in Ashland, Ohio and received graduate degrees from Ohio State University: M.A. in Social Administration (1936) and Ph.D. (1948).
In between completing his two graduate degrees, Sower worked as a rural sociologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and worked for the American Red Cross in Great Britain, Europe, and Washington, D.C. during the World War II years. His duties included working in employment services and directing youth programs. Sower was hired at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) as an Assistant Professor starting in 1946, while he was still working toward his doctorate. His major responsibility at that time was research and teaching sociology and anthropology classes. In 1949, he was appointed associate professor of sociology and anthropology and was appointed full professor in 1956.
Sower received a Fulbright Research Scholarship in 1955-1956 researching the development issues in the country of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). In 1963 he continued this research by serving on a United Nations Technical Assistance Mission to Ceylon. In addition to his overseas research, he was prolific in publishing about national, state, local, and community organizations and their structure (private and public). He studied and published works concerning teen-age behavior and drinking, rural development, the structure and nature of Land-Grant Institutions, industrial, agricultural, and religious organizations, highway studies, urban development and blight, and centralized knowledge centers. He retired as professor emeritus in 1982 from Michigan State University. He remained active in his field of study after retirement and his last book was Formula for Change, published in 1994. Christopher Sower passed away on May 30, 2007.
Scope and Contents note
The papers of Christopher Sower consist primarily of his professional writings and also includes notes, departmental memos, and reports. There are two main series: Publications, and Reports & Proposals.
The Publications series contains a group of loose papers which are listed by title, however the majority of the material was kept by Sower in chronological order by year. These groupings contain all his writings including, published articles, drafts, working papers, memos, and correspondence relating to his work with a small amount of personal items interspersed among the material, for each year. These groupings were kept in the original order that Sower arranged them. A list of some of his topics for each year's work is included in the folder descriptions. There is one separate folder of Sower family papers.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Conrad Hall888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Legal Status
Copyright: Michigan State University. Property Rights: Michigan State University.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Michigan State University. Department of Sociology.
Genre(s)
- Letters (correspondence)
- Minutes (administrative records)
- Publications
- Reports
Geographic Name(s)
- Okemos (Mich.)
- Sri Lanka
Personal Name(s)
- Sower, Bill
Subject(s)
- Agriculture -- International cooperation
- Community development
- Community organization
- High school students -- Alcohol Use -- Middle West
- Organizational change
- Organizational sociology
- Rural development -- International cooperation
- Sociology, Rural
Collection Inventory
Publications |
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A BLUEPRINT FOR URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - The Sponsorship Theory Of Organization Change [Sower and Logan] January 10, 1972 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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BUILDING A FORMULA FOR INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS - The Case Of Food Production [Sower and Harris] April 30, 1982 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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CAN THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION SYSTEM UTILIZE THE FINDINGS OF ITS OWN ORGANIZATION SCIENCE? (Working Paper) March 17, 1983 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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CAN THE UNIVERSITY BECOME A SELF RENEWING INSTITUTION? - Can Michigan State University Become A World Competent Knowledge Center On The Technology Of Updating The Institutions Of Modern Societies? (First Draft) April 18, 1970 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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A CITIZEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR THE CHEBOYGAN RIVER WATERSHED August 21, 1976 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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Community Involvement in Community Development Program [Sower and Freeman] - Reprinted from Rural Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 1 March 1958 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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CONFLICT OVER SCHOOLS: A Sociological Analysis of a Suburban School Bond Election [Sower, King, and Freeman] 1963 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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"Day of the 'real university' is coming" (State News Newspaper Article) May 11, 1971 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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THE DESIGN OF A DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM TO PREVENT NON-EFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR IN ITS EARLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGES 1970 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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DESIGNING AGENCY COORDINATION TO DEAL WITH EARLY STAGES OF THE DEVIANCY CYCLE - THE CASE OF ALCOHOLISM - Reprinted from the South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vol. XIII, No. 12 December, 1960 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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DESIGNING AGENCY COORDINATION TO DEAL WITH EARLY STAGES OF THE DEVIANCY CYCLE - THE CASE OF ALCOHOLISM - Original Article - South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vol. XIII, No. 12 December 1960 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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An Experimental Sociology of Institutional Renewal - Reprinted from Rural Sociology, Vol. 41, No. 1 Spring 1976 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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THE GREAT AMERICAN EXPERIMENT IN MANAGING SOCIAL ORGANIZATION TO ACHIEVE DEVELOPMENT GOALS - Outstanding Success in Agriculture and Nutrition Failure in Urban Development |
5568 | 1 | ||
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A Guide for an Evaluative Study of the Rural Development Programme in Ceylon October 16, 1955 |
5568 | 10 | ||
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Guide Sheets - HOW TO STUDY AN ORGANIZATION November 1, 1967 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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Increasing the Effectiveness of Food Production Research Hybrid Corn (Maize) Case of Increasing Food Production November 1981 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS (Working Paper) April 5, 1982 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS (Working Paper) April 5, 1982 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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HIERARCHY AND STATUS CHANGE IN THE INDUSTRIAL MIDWEST [Sower and Stone] - Version 1 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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HIERARCHY AND STATUS CHANGE IN THE INDUSTRIAL MIDWEST [Sower, Stone, and Schroeder] - Version 2 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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HOW TO ORGANIZE FOR INVENTIVENESS [Sower, Anderson, Parsons, and Ellis] (First Draft) November 1963 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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HOW TO STUDY AN ORGANIZATION OR A COMMUNITY July 28, 1969 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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AN INITIAL ATTEMPT TO DESIGN AN URBAN GRANT KNOWLEDGE CENTER SYSTEM FOR MICHIGAN (Working Paper) December 4, 1968 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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An Initial Attempt To Diagram THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE BASIC DISCIPLINES AND THE "HUMAN MANAGEMENT" DISCIPLINES November 14, 1963 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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An Innovation Test Model Approach To Designing FUTURE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ROLES FOR LAND-GRANT COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE (Second Draft) October 28, 1965 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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Involvement and Obligation as Elements of Community Action [Sower and Freeman] September 9, 1954 |
5568 | 10 | ||
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KEEPING ORGANIZATIONS UPDATED AND EFFECTIVE (Notes For Farmers Week Presentation January 31, 1968 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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The Land-Grant University "Development Organization" in Transition: The Case of the Cooperative Extension Service - Reprinted from "Directing the Cooperative Extension Service" 1962 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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THE LARGE UNIVERSITY'S SLIP IS SHOWING Is Institutional Self Renewal Possible? [Sower and Korth] September 13, 1975 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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Learning to Live in the Community A Sociological Analysis of Some Problems in Teaching Community Roles to the Mentally Retarded - Reprinted from The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society Vol. 58 December 1959 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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The Major Organizational Dilemma Of Modern Societies (First Draft) - Incomplete February 1, 1968 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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MANAGING A MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT TO MAXIMIZE ITS ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS January 27, 1972 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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THE NORMATIVE SPONSORSHIP THEORY OF UPDATING ORGANIZATIONS - A Theory of Organization Change Which Has Been Tested Experimentally With Urban, Food-Agricultural, and Other Development Organizations [Article for Administrative Science Quarterly] (Second Draft) September 24, 1968 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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THE NORMATIVE SPONSORSHIP THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS A Theory of Organization Change Which Has Been Tested Experimentally With Urban, Food-Agricultural, Higher Education, and Other Development Organizations (Third Draft) |
5568 | 3 | ||
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ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRIES The Test Case Of The National Apple Industry [Sower and Ricks] (First Draft of Proposal) February 12, 1968 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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OUTMODED ORGANIZATIONS CAN BE RENEWED An Application Of The External Force Principle (Proposed Book Format) October 1966 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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The Problem of Communication Between Professional and Community Social Systems [Sower and Freeman] September 8, 1954 |
5568 | 10 | ||
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A Proposal for a Multi-Organizational Knowledge Center on How to Increase the Proportion of a Population Capable of Performing Productive Roles (Working Paper) January 20, 1965 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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A RESEARCH PROGRAM ON INNOVATION IN WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS - A Community Of Organizations Approach (Second Draft) December 27, 1966 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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Role of Social Relationships in Achieving Community Health Goals [Sower and Freeman] - Reprinted from American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 45, No. 3 March 1955 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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Rural Development Societies as Cultural Agencies March 18, 1956 |
5568 | 10 | ||
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SOCIAL PROCESS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE - An Application Of The External Force Principle August 2-5, 1966 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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START 10,000 LOCAL FIRES - A Tested Theory Of Institutional Reform (Book Format) |
5568 | 1 | ||
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Teen-Age Drinking as Group Behavior Implications for Research - Reprinted from Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 20, No. 3 September 1959 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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Teen-Age Drinking and the School - Reprint from Mental Health Aspects 1959 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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Two Research Test Cases Demonstrate That Social Organization Science Is Sufficiently Developed To Assist With - INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT USE NATURAL SCIENCE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS (Working Paper) April 11, 1989 |
5568 | 3 | ||
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UPDATING OUTDATED ORGANIZATIONS - The Normative Sponsorship Theory (First Draft of Proposed Article For Administrative Science Quarterly; Also Book Format ) |
5568 | 1 | ||
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WHITHER THE PIONEER LAND GRANT UNIVERSTIY? - A Proposed Knowledge Building Program On Institutional Change For Foundation Funding (Working Paper) June 4, 1981 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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Why Do Teen-Agers Drink? - Printed in Mental Health Aspects of Alcohol Education (Proceedings) October 14-16, 1958 |
5568 | 4 | ||
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WHY NOT TRY USING THE LAND GRANT COLLEGE IDEA TO REVIVE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS? November 5, 1987 |
5568 | 2 | ||
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A WORKABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ANY COUNTY-CITY AREA OF ANY MODERN NATION (Working Paper) November 28, 1966 |
5568 | 1 | ||
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MSU Reference Publications Urban Affairs Programs, Township Zoning (KImball); Reprints of Robert Hanson (MSU); "The Community- What is It?"; Benzie County, MI Survey |
5578 | 15 | ||
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Papers by and co-written with Paul Miller Agricultural Colleges of the United States; Changing Power Structure [w/Sower]; Nature of Agricultural Power; Agribusiness; Higher Education in Home Economics; Cooperative Extension Work. |
5571 | 5 | ||
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Community Health Action - Draft of Paul Miller's book 1953 |
5568 | 8 | ||
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Community Health Project - An Analysis of the Social Processes in Community Self-Studies January 3, 1951 |
5568 | 7 | ||
Works for 1957 |
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Small Informal Social Systems 1957 |
5568 | 13 | ||
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Model for Community Action 1957 |
5568 | 13 | ||
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Studying an Organization or a Community is Like Approaching the Study of a Mountain 1957 |
5568 | 13 | ||
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A Proposal to Study the Change of Role Which is Occuring in the Extension Services of Michigan State University 1957 |
5568 | 13 | ||
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Michigan State University : A Sociological Evaluation Study of the Rural Development Program in Ceylon - Guide Sheet for Discussion at Alpha Kapa Delta Seminar Meeting February 22, 1957 |
5568 | 13 | ||
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The Ceylon Village Development Program: A Sociological Analysis July, 1957 |
5568 | 14 | ||
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The Contemporary Community August 23, 1957 |
5568 | 14 | ||
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The Dilemma of Two Inconsistent Roles within a Complex Organization December 26, 1957 |
5568 | 14 | ||
Works for 1958 |
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Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service Annual Report of Extension Function (Tentative Draft) 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Community Involvement in Community Development Program [Sower and Freeman] - Reprinted from Rural Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 1. March 1, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Red Cross Research (Working Paper) March 19, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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An Opinion Poll of Persons Attending the Royal Agricultural and Food Exhibition - Colombo, Ceylon - January and February 1956 April 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Tentative Presentation of Ideas Pertaining to Research in the Sociology of the Relationship Between Highways and Communities. Prepared for presentation to the Advisory Committee of the MSU Highway Traffic Safety Center. April 17, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Notes of Community Power Structure Conference April 26-27, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Interviews of Ford Motor Company, Detroit City Officials, Michigan Commuity Leaders, General Motors, Michigan Hotel and Resort Association, Michigan Associations, and Highway Traffic Safety officials conducted by Floyd Hunter, Gary King and Norb WIley July, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Group Conference Report on Field and Theoretical Formulations July 18, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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A resume of Highway Commitioner Mackey's Talk for the Lansing Democratic Club July 22, 1958 |
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Interviews at Charlotte, Michigan August 6, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Persons and Associations Interviewed with Respect to Leadership in Michigan August 7, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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An Interview concerning Indian Lake 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Highway Department Hearing Aganist the Darling Freight Company Aguest 12, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Highway Department Hearing August 19, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Progress Report in Research Design of Michigan Highway Study September, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Highway Report (Rough Draft) October 7, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Theory of Organization [Westby] |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Highway Department Intrviews December, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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The County Extension Agent Role in Transition (Diagrams) September, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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The Extension Agent's Role in Community Develoment August 24, 1958 |
5568 | 15 | ||
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Teenage Drinking: A Sociological Analysis [Sower, McCall, and Maddox] (Review Copy) July 1958 |
5571 | 1 | ||
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Teen Age Drinking and the School October 16, 1958 |
5571 | 1 | ||
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Some Research Implications of the Fact That Most Teen-Age Drining is Group Behavior (First Draft) October 25-26, 1958 |
5571 | 1 | ||
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Should the Community of Okemos become a City? --Discussion Guide for a Public Meeting October 30, 1958 |
5571 | 1 | ||
Works for 1959 |
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Highway Department Interviews 1959 |
5571 | 2 | ||
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Planning Meeting for Community Studies March 9, 1959 |
5571 | 2 | ||
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Highway Impact Project March 11, 1959 |
5571 | 2 | ||
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Memorandum December 1959 |
5571 | 2 | ||
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The Interviewer's Guide for the study of Innovation Cases by the Red Cross Youth Study Committee December, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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The Study of the Role of Youth in the Red Cross 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Memorandum (Rural Sociology) March 4, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Proposal for the Development of Theory and Research in Social Change and Community Development (First Draft) April 23, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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The Problem of Planning an Extension Women's Program for a Metropolitan Area Which can be Justified and Legitimized by Groups Relevant to Extension Decision -Making (Working Paper) August 4, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Teenage Drinking as a Group Behavior - Implications for Research September, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Notes on the Conversation between Sower and Maddox concerning the High School Drinking Study September 3, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Variables associated with a change orientation in the Red Cross Organization October, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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A Proposal to Reorganize the Relationships between the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Cooperative Extension Service (Rough Draft) October 20, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Memorandum (National Red Cross) November 12, 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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A Proposed Research Design for Large-Scale Social and Educational Organizations (Working Paper) December 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
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Learning to Live in the Community December 1959 |
5571 | 3 | ||
Works for 1960 |
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A Sociological Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Highway Change and Social Change [Sower, Hanson, Westby, and Wiley] December 1960 |
5571 | 4 | ||
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Compilation 1960 Community Development in Nepal; Female Roles in American Society; Problem Drinking in Work & Industry; Community Research/Social Welfare; MSU Cooperative Extension Service Organization; Adult Education for Women; Organizational Change; Alcoholism Treatment |
5571 | 6 | ||
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Miscellaneous Papers from 1960s Correspondence; Extension Program for Women; Okemos Community Church; Organizational Development Research; Normative Sponsorship Theory; Urban Development |
5578 | 11 | ||
Works for 1961 |
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Compilation 1961 Cooperative Extension Training; Extension Agent's Role; Community Development; Community Involvement; Social Control; Leadership and Organizations in Michigan; Planed Change; Home Economics In Detroit; Changing Power Structure in Agriculture; Christian Church Organizations; Community Development and Agricultural Extension. |
5571 | 7 | ||
Works for 1962 |
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Compilation 1962 Upper Peninsula Development; Seventh Day Adventists; Land Grant University (Cooperative Extension Transition); Development Planning in Northern Lower MI; MSU Inner City Development Service; International Development; Land Grant Universities & USDA in Development; Religious Beliefs in Okemos, MI; Development Organization Theory; Rural Development Evaluation in Ceylon; MSU Extension Program; National Development Goals in Ceylon; County Developement; Office Memorandums |
5571 | 8 | ||
Works for 1963 |
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Compilation (Part 1) January - July, 1963 Okemos, MI School Controversy; Michigan Livestock Health Council; Changing Power Structure in Agriculture; Michigan State Department of Conservation; Knowledge Center Development Organizations; Organizational Change; "Productive Personality"; State Economic Development Planning; Natural Resources Development Planning; Applied Social Science in Ceylon; Research Proposals; Christian Service; MSU Cooperative Extension Service & Federal Extension Service; MSU Administration; Upper Peninsula Develpment program; Traverse City Area Extension; Recreation Development; Behaviour in Traditional Organizations |
5571 | 9 | ||
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Compilation (Part 2) August - December, 1963 Intra-Organizational Action; Schools of Social Work; Management i Social Organizations; Okemos Community Church Education Programs; Mental Health; Deviant Behavior; Okemos Community Church Comparison Data; Knowledge Center Development; Data Processing Function for MI Cooperative Extension Service; Agriculture Development Data Processing; Land Grant University Systems; Life Cycle of Organizations; University Organizations; Sociology Department; Human management Disciplines; Pontiac Urban Renewal project; Annual Extension Report; Knowledge Utilization; Information Services and MSU Extension; Land Grant Universities and Social Organization Knowledge; |
5571 | 10 | ||
Works for 1964 |
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Compilation (Part 1) January - May, 1964 Changing Power Structure in Agriculture; Knowledge Center Roles; Roles of Organizations in Knowledge Utilization; Okemos, MI Community Church; Life cycle of Organizations; How Diversity Extension Services can Work with Agencies; Utilizing Scientific Knowledge to Achieve Development Goals; Department of Sociology and Anthropology Organization; Upper Peninsula Human Resources Development; Natural Resources Development; Changing Michigan Communities (dysfunction); Notice of "No Discrimination" on the sale of Sower's House (Okemos, MI); MSU Farmers' Week Community Development Program; Educating Low-Income Families; Governor's Man Power Committee; Upper Peninsula County and Community Development; Inventiveness; Social Organization Discipline; Productive Persons vs Welfare Approach to Human Resources; Positive Social Organization; |
5571 | 11 | ||
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Compilation (Part 2) June - December 1964 Organization Research in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; Organizational Structures, Mental Illness and Social Organization; Human Productivity; Pontiac, MI Urban Renewal; Organizational Change; Nature of Organizations, Knowledge Centers; Farmers' Week; MSU Technical Institute; Positive Social Organization; Church Research; Staffing Policy; Land Grant University Role in the Urban-I Industrial Society; Land Grant University Extension Program; Personality Development; Village Studies in Ceylon; Extension Reports; Michigan Apple Commission - vis a vis the new Michigan Constitution; Utilizing Scientific Knowledge |
5572 | 1 | ||
Works for 1965 |
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Compilation January - December 1965 Organizational Health & Company Efficiency; Commodity Organizations; Multi-Organizational Knowledge Center; Life Cycle of Organizations; Christian Church Organization; Systematic Study of Michigan Commodity Organizations; Organization Innovation; Increase Selected Welfare Clients to Perform Useful Social Roles; Organization Sociology; Urban Development' Extension services at Michigan's Publically Supported Universities; Urban Residential Neighborhood Development; North-West Lower Michigan Development; Normative Theory of Organization Change; Human Resources Development; Ceylon Villages (Follow-up); National Research on Innovation; Michigan Organization Inventory; Organization & Administration; Future National and International Roles for Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture; Effective Development for Area and Urban Development; Organization Learning Laboratory; ; The Organization of the College of Agriculture |
5572 | 2 | ||
Works for 1966 |
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Compilation Jamuary - December 1966 Organization Analysis Laboratory; Making Deviant Behavior Normative; Innovation in Development Organization; Social Organization of Lower Income People; Organization Quotient; Relationship Between Social Organization Variables and Life Cycle Role Performance; Proposed Model for using Organic, Psychotherapy and Socialization for The First Grade; Organizational Problems in the Michigan Fruit Industry; Disadvantages Students of Okemos Schools; Governing Social Conservation; Management of Interdependent Organizations Clusters; Proposed New Unit for the Dept. of Sociology at MSU; Okemos Community Church; More Effective Organization of the Michigan Cherry Industry; Southern India Research; External Force Principle, Virginia Park Diagnostic Survey; Fundamentalist and Outreach Christian Churches; Indian Community Developement Program; Organizational Arrangement of the National Apple Industry; Home Economics Extension; Innovation in Welfare Organizations. |
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Barriers to Organization Innovation / Outmoded Organizations Can Be Renewed - An Application of the External Force Principle (Book Draft) October 1966 Seven Parts |
5572 | 5 | ||
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Innovation in Development Organizations - A Ten Year Test of the Normative Consensus Theory April 27, 1966 |
5572 | 6 | ||
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Innovation in Development Organizations - A Ten Year Test of the Normative Consensus Theory (Draft Parts) |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Selected Principles about Development Organizations |
5572 | 4 | ||
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What is Your Organization Quotient? January 18, 1966 |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Organization Innovation: Making Deviant Behavior Normative January, 1966 |
5572 | 4 | ||
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The Problem of Designing the Models for Predicting How a Development Organization Achieves its Goals: The Case of a State Highway Dept. [Sower, Hanson, Westby, Wiley] January 10, 1966 (Original Date March 1961) |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Unit One: Knowledge Center Development Organizations - Changing Power Structure; Land Grand Development Organization in Transition; Innovation Test Model Approach to Designing Future National and International Roles for Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture 1966 |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Unit Two: Area Development Organizations - Roles of Organizations in Achieving national Development Goals (Ceylon); Legacy of Colonial Type Bureaucracies vs. Development Organizations (Ceylon); Effective Organizations for Area Development |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Unit Three: Natural Resources Development Organizations - Regulatorism Vs Development - Case of A State Dept. of Conservation; How Can Michigan Organize to Achieve a Maximum Utilization of its Natural Resources? |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Unit Four: Urban Development Organizations - Organizing for Urban Development; How a City Government can make use of Organization Science to Achieve Urban Renewal Goals |
5572 | 4 | ||
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Unit Five: University Teaching Organizations - Some University Teaching Must Become a "Systems Task" and Not just an "Individual Professor Task in order to become effective; The Plight of Sociology Departments and Professional Associations. |
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A Proposed Plan for the Establishment of a National Human Productivity Technical Center System |
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Works for 1967 |
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How a City can Update Its Development Agencies and Peoples' Organizations? (Book Draft) December, 1967 |
5573 | 1 | ||
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Compilation March - April 1967 Newspaper articles, Reference Material, Student Papers, Correspondence |
5573 | 2 | ||
Works for 1968 |
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Compilation 1968 Community Systems; Organization Laboratory; Non-Effective Behaviour in Elementary School Ages; Utilizing Scientific Knowledge; Social Drinking and Social Organization; Iner- and Intra- Relationships of Food Industry Organizations; Organization Development Center for the MSU College of Social Science; Apple Industry; Organization Development Centers; Rural Organizations; City neighborhood Development; Research Contract Between MSU Dept. of Sociology and The MI Dept of State Highways; Christian and Buddhist organizations; Historical Developments in Michigan organizations; Food Organization Project; Relevance of Sociologists; City Organization Research; Teaching Program for 1968-1969; Syllabus for SOC 241; Exam for SOC 868; Model for Teaching Social Science at MSU; Michigan Cherry Industry; |
5573 | 3-4 | ||
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Organizatinal Laboratory (Working Papers) Edited by Sower. 1968 Fraternities at MSU; Organizational Problems at Justin Morrill College (MSU); Positive Neighborhood Action Committee |
5573 | 5 | ||
Works for 1969 |
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A Do It Yourself Textbook in Organization Science - The Knowledge Approach to City Community Development [Sower, Logan, Hawkins] October 1969 |
5573 | 6 | ||
Works for 1970 |
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Compilation Design of a Demonstration Program to Prevent Noneffective Behavior in Early Elementary School; Agency Types Organizations Relationships with Natural Social Organizations of Communities; Updating Organizations; MSU Administration of Knowledge Approach; MSU Dept. of Soc. - New Approaches to Teaching; Experimental Research on Changing the Behavior of Whole Social Systems; Problem Behavior in Pre-High School Students; Organizations concerned with Air and Water Pollution in MI; Description of SOC 493; Food Enterprises; Agencies of a City Community; Obsolete Universities; "People's College"; New Highways and Effective City Communities; Normative Sponsorship; The Problem of Safety in the Suburban Community; How to Implement University Change |
5573 | 8 | ||
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Experimental Designs for Updating Organizations - Test Cases of Universities, City Communities and Agencies, Food and Other Organizations February 1970 |
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Compilation 1969 Correspondence; Inner City Organizations; Food Industry Test Cases; Course Course Description for SOC 493; Newspaper Articles; Transportation and City Development; Sociology Honors Program (MSU); Sou Soul Vs Traditional Religious Organizations; Multiversity Teaching; Organization Updating Process; Course Descriptions SOC 868/ ED 982; Learn Organizations; Constructing an Organization Base Map; Urban Dynamic and Organization; The Normative Gap between University and Soc. Dept Goals; MSU College of Ag Knowledge Center; Updating University Sociology Departments; Experiment State Research on Organization Change; Roles of Universities in Urban Development; The "Critical University"; How to Understand Any Human Organization; The need for Blacks to Learn How to Organize for Effectiveness; Radical Reform- Sociology Liberation Movement; Dual Specializatin in Social Systems fir the Dept. of Soc.; Dairy Industry |
5573 | 7 | ||
Works for 1971 |
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Working Papers Experimental Tests of the Normative Sponsorship Theory of Organization Change; Experimental Methodology; Knowledge Approach to City Development; Obsolete Universities; the Science of Organization Change; |
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Compilation 1971 Science of Organization and Change Experimental Methodology; Correspondence; Commodity Organizations in Michigan; City Development; Department Procedure for Making Tenure Decisions; Community Knowledge Centers; Library Assigned Reading List; People's Organization in Agriculture; Book Reviews; |
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Highland Park City Planning - Criminal Justice Program - Book I February 8, 1972 |
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Highland Park City Planning - Book 2 March 1972 |
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Compilation 1972 Urban Community Development: Sponsorship Theory; Managing a MSU Department (Soc.); Sower & the MSU Dept of Soc. (Evaluation & Challenge); Urban Experiment Station; Christian Church Organization; Experimental Methodology; Updating the Land Grant Tradition; Principles of Organization Change; Effective Human Organizations; Highland Park Schools Early Elementary Delinquency Detection and Prevention Program; Maintaining Organization Self Renewal; Grievance statement against MSU Officials; Research on Development Organizations (Progress Report) |
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Compilation 1973 Self Renewal for the Sociology Organization; Experiment Station Report; Urban Experiment Station; Multi-College Recruiting of Student for Learning and Knowledge Centers; Human Conditions of A Changing Society; Student Research & Development Roles through "Experience Education"; Housing Research & Development at MSU; The Human Components and Consequences of Different Kinds of Housing and Housing Neighborhoods; Sower Grievance Case; Pickeral Lakes Improvement Association; Will We Save our Lakes?; Exam for Soc. 28; Interorganizational Involvement in Environmental Decision Making; Ecological Planning; Salaries and Cronyism in MSU Dept of Soc.; Field Experience Sociology: Concept and Method; USDA Progress Report |
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Compilation 1974 Local Knowledge Station Invention; Salaries and Cronyism in MSU Dept. of Soc; Urban Experiment Station; Concepts for the Contemporary Community Course; Urban Experiment Station idea; Framework for an ILO Program on Rural Employment Promotion; Women & Women's Roles of the West Michigan Methodist Conference; Women's Roles in Churches; Qualitative Methodology in Studying Social Organization; Research methods for Studying the Jackson County Jail; MSU School of Criminal Justice; Experimental Sociology; Rural Institutions; County Human Services Experiment Station; Institutional Renewal; Visual Methods Workshop; Lifelong Education; |
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Compilation 1975 Crisis Conditions in Rural Institutions; 1975 Model for Organization of Land Grant University Extension Services; Organization Structure (Ceylon); Bureaucracy and he Multiversity; Sociology of Community Renewal; Community Research Station Idea; Community Sociology: A Learning Laboratory Approach; Lifelong Education Program; Urban Neighborhood Development; Re-Building the Land Grant Concept; Est. of a Grand Rapids Community Research Station; Natural Resources Research Station; MSU Grievance System; City Community Development; Reversing the Decline in City Communities; Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Experimental Sociology of Institutional Renewal |
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Compilation Newspaper articles; Rebuilding our Institutions - Without Growth; Updating Public Institutions - without Expansion; Institutional Renewal; Updating State Funded Services - without Expansion; Memos and Correspondence; Urban Development Funding; Federal vs. Private Funding; Urban Experiment Station Idea; Experimental Sociology Progress Report; |
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The Community Research Station Idea & a Sociology of Institutional Renewal |
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Compilation 1977 Lake Ecology; Rural Sociology, Urban Experiment Station; Controversial Public Technologies; HUD Office of Neighborhoods, Voluntary Associations, and Consumer Protection; Local Development in Lower Northern Michigan; Newspaper Articles;Assessment of Experiential Learning; Agriculture and Rural Life in Michigan Methodological Problems; Correspondence; Church Women and Cowbird Colleges; Development Institutions of Developing Countries- Sri Lanka; Detroit- Public Works Employment Act; Urban Crisis; Reviving Cities; How an Urban Grant College Program Can Work; Organization of Village Level Administration - Sri Lanka |
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Compilation 1978 Urban Grant College Programs; Memos and Correspondence; Workable National Urban Development Program; Statewide Urban Grant College Program; Kellogg Foundation Funding; Water Research; Helping Neighborhood Organizations Use Knowledge; Experimental Social Science; Experimental Community Science; Soc 868; Faculty Advisory Council Meeting Minutes; Damaging Consequences of Large Public Bureaucracies; Michigan State University's New Age of Uncertainty; Attendance Policies of Okemos High School; Littlefield Township Proposal; Incentive Program for Okemos High School; |
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Compilation 1979 Soc 71; Memos; Correspondence; Knowledge Building Education Program for the Saginaw Area; Revitalizing East Lansing Neighborhood Businesses; Knowledge Development Approach to Urban Neighborhood Revival; Updating Bureaucracy; Soc 868; Teaching Social Organization; Human Incentive; Achieving Local Development Goals; Big Public Bureaucracies' Water Quality Goals in Lake Communities; Knowledge Building Course in Organization and Community Science |
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Compilation 1980 Public Organization Effectiveness; MSU Sociology Graduate Program Memos; Correspondence; Changing Public Agencies; National Development Programs; Community Development; Preventing Urban Decline; Cluster Organizations; Sri Lanka; Rural Sociology; National, State & Local Development; Bicycles on Campus; International-National Organizations Working in the Third World; Human Services; Asian Regional Seminar; American Military Power |
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A Brief Summary of Materials in the Files Concerning Recommendations to the Country of Ceylon January 1980 |
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Miscellaneous Papers from 1980s Memos, Sociology Department Meeting Minutes; Correspondence; Effectiveness of Agricultural Development Organizations; Student Papers; Reviving City Neighborhoods; Event Announcements |
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Compilation (Loose Papers) 1984 Remodeling Public Institutions; Remodeling The Higher Education Institutions of Michigan; Remodeling Traditional Institutions; Effectiveness of the Intern Program (Lakes); SOC 868; Okemos Planning Commission; Notes; Correspondence. This material is not in chronological order. |
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Compilation 1987 Use of Scientific Knowledge; Welfare Reform; Adapting the Land-Grant College Concept for the Urban Society (Urban Blight); Poem for Retirement of Dept. of Sociology Faculty- Al Beegle |
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Compilation 1988 Delta College Community Research Summer Institute; Correspondence & Notes; Decline of of City Neighborhoods and Agencies |
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Compilation 1990 Reviving the City; Book Reviews; Correspondence; The Technology of Reviving Christian Church Organizations; Land-Grant College idea |
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Miscellaneous Papers - Various Dates SOC 868; Urban Experiment Station; Correspondence |
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Family Papers, Undated Papers related to family history and issues, including Poems written by Sower |
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A Sociological Analysis of a Health Self-Survey in Lenawee County, Michigan - [Prepared by Project Staff Sower, Holland, Freeman, Tiedke, and Sonnenburg] (First Draft of Final Report) July 15, 1952 |
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Community Health Action in Central County - A Sociological Analysis of the Social Involvement Process in Conducting a Health Survey in Middle State U.S.A. - [Prepared by Project Staff Sower, Holland, Freeman, Tiedke] June 9, 1953 |
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A Study of High School Drinking: The Pattern and Social Context of a Common Illegal Act - A Preliminary Report Submitted to the Michigan State Board of Alcoholism [Sower, McCall, Maddox] 1956 |
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The Ceylon Village Development Program - A Sociological Analysis (Corrected Copy) June 1957 |
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A Proposal for the Organization Laboratory Approach to Teaching Sociology 1967 |
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