Charles A. Ellwood was one of the leading American

United States

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 sociologists of the interwar period, studying intolerance

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

, communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

 and revolution

Revolution

A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.Aristotle described two types of political revolution:...

s and using many multidisciplinary methods. He argued that sociology should play a role in directing cultural evolution through education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 of society

Society

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. He was an author of many articles and books, the fourteenth president of the American Sociological Society president of American Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

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 in 1924. He spent the first 30 years of his career and rose to national prominence at the University of Missouri-Columbia before a 15-year tenure at Duke University

Duke University

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. http://www.phy.duke.edu/people/HerthaSponer/RefugeeScholarsAtDukeUniversity.pdf

An excerpt from a biography at the Missouri University (MU) Sociology Web site reads:

External links

• • Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. Ellwood at Project Gutenberg
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