In hmolscience, Robert C. Bannister (c.1933-) is an American historian noted for []
Overview
In 1987, Bannister, in his Sociology and Scientism: the American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940, outlined a focused historical of American “scientific sociology”, aka positivism, in the 1920s, focused on the work of Lester Ward, Albion Small, William Sumner, and Franklin Giddings, among others, e.g. Luther Bernard, Stuart Chapin, William Ogburn, George Lundberg, the one-time student of Bernard and Chapin, whose “operationalism” Bannister classifies as “a final attenuation of interwar positivism”, all themed on the old idea that the natural and social sciences were or should be governed by similar concepts and methods. [1]
Education
In 1955, Bannister completed his BA at Yale College; in 1957 he completed a second BA followed by an MA in 1961 at Oxford University, and in 1961 completed his PhD, after which he became history professor at Swarthmore College, becoming professor emeritus in 1998. (Ѻ)
References
1. Bannister, Robert C. (1987). Sociology and Scientism: the American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940 (§:5.1 Pluralistic Behaviorism, pgs. 75-). University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
External links
● Sociology in the US (historical materials) – SwarthMore.edu.
● Robert Bannister (faculty) – Swarthmore University.
