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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Joseph Gusfield Papers
Creator:
Gusfield, Joseph R., 1923-
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0712
Physical Description:
3.2 Linear feet
(8 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1961-2008
Abstract: Papers of Joseph R. Gusfield, professor of sociology and founding chair of the UC San Diego Department of Sociology. The collection
includes drafts of published and unpublished writings, a small amount of correspondence and biographical materials, and planning
materials for UC San Diego's Third College.
Languages:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Joseph R. Gusfield, sociologist and founding chair of the UC San Diego Department of Sociology. The collection includes
drafts of published and unpublished writings, a small amount of correspondence and biographical materials, and planning materials
for UC San Diego's Third College.
Arranged in four series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) SUBJECT FILES, 3) WRITINGS BY GUSFIELD, and 4) UC SAN DIEGO/THIRD COLLEGE.
Joseph Gusfield Papers, MSS 712. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Sociologist Joseph R. Gusfield (1923-2015) was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning
his bachelor's (1946), master's (1949), and Ph.D. degrees (1954) in sociology. He taught at the University of Chicago, the
University of Illinois, and Hobart and William Smith College before being recruited to found the sociology department at UC
San Diego in 1969. Gusfield was involved with the formation of Third College at UC San Diego, serving on its provisional faculty
and executive committee. Gusfield also taught in India, Japan, and France, and served as president of the Pacific Sociological
Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He was known for his works on alcohol use in society, including
Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement (1963),
The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Social Order (1981), and
Contested Meanings: The Construction of Alcohol Problems (1996).
Acquired 2009, 2022.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sociologists -- Biography
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty -- Archives
Gusfield, Joseph R., 1923- -- Archives
University of California, San Diego. Third College -- Archives