Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Joseph Gusfield Papers
- Dates:
- 1961-2008
- Creators:
- Gusfield, Joseph R., 1923-
- 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 The collection includes drafts of published and unpublished writings, a small amount of correspondence and biographical materials, and planning materials for UC San Diego's Third College.
- Extent:
- 3.2 Linear feet (8 archives boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
-
Joseph Gusfield Papers, MSS 712. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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 The collection includes drafts of published and unpublished writings, a small amount of correspondence and biographical materials, and planning materials for UC San Diego's Third College.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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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).
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 2009, 2022.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-12 16:53:13 -0700 .
Access and use
- Terms of access:
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Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
- Preferred citation:
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Joseph Gusfield Papers, MSS 712. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533