Richard Thacker Morris
Richard Thacker Morris | |
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 Morris (foreground in white), at his Los Gatos home, during the late 1970s | |
| Born | April 28, 1917 Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 17, 1981 (aged 63) Los Gatos, California |
| Occupation | Professor and author |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University |
| Subject | Sociology |
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| Spouse | Tanya |
Richard Thacker Morris (April 28, 1917 – March 17, 1981) was a professor of
University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of The Two-Way Mirror: National Status in Foreign Students' Adjustment (1960),[1] as well as The White Reaction Study (1967),[2] an important work on urban race relations
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Academic career
Morris earned his
Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands (1963–64). During his tenure at UCLA, he also served as Acting Dean of the School of Social Welfare, and later as Chairman of the Department of Sociology. He was also an associate editor and book review editor of American Sociological Review.[3]
References
- ^ Catalog of the British Library of Political & Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (retrieved on March 4th, 2010). Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Catalog of the British Library of Political & Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (retrieved on March 4th, 2010). Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ University of California: In Memoriam, 1985, "Richard T. Morris, Social Welfare: Los Angeles," by Maurice Connery, Eliot Rodnick, and Melvin Seeman (retrieved on March 13th, 2010).
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