Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George Caspar Homans

9780331357387: Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331357380 ISBN 13: 9780331357387

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My very entrance into sociology was a matter of chance; or rather, I got into sociology because I had nothing better to do. I graduated from Harvard College in June, 1932, having concentrated academically in English literature and nonacademically in writing verse. In line with my literary interests I had decided to make myself a newspaperman. I was quite wrong; literary ability is the last thing a newspaperman needs to get ahead. But I was saved from the consequences of deliberate decision. Although I had gotten myself a job beginning in the fall with William Allen White of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette, the Depression was still getting worse, and when the time came for me to go to Em poria, White wired me that the circulation of the Gazette had gone down so much that he would have to withdraw his ofier of a job. This made me, like so many others at the time, unemployed.

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