uarc00962 Francis Stuart Chapin papers, 1920-1964 Carol Jenson; updated by Karen Spilman University of Minnesota Libraries June 1967; January 2005
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EAD encoding by Karen Spilman and Kelly Dugan January 2005 English University of Minnesota Libraries. University of Minnesota Archives [uarc] Chapin, F. Stuart (Francis Stuart), 1888- Francis Stuart Chapin papers 1920-1936, 1963-1964 7 boxes (9.1 linear feet) The Francis Stuart Chapin was a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. The papers contain correspondence regarding the development and publication of Social Science Abstracts. 962 English Administrative Information Use of Materials

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Copyright

Requests for permission to quote from the Francis Stuart Chapin papers should be arranged with the University of Minnesota Archives head.

Preferred citation

Francis Stuart Chapin papers, University of Minnesota Archives.

Source of acquisition

The bulk of the collection was deposited in University Archives in 1953. Additional materials were donated by Ronald Althouse in 1981.

Scope and Content

The collection largely contains papers and correspondence regarding the development and publication of Social Science Abstracts. Also contained are interviews and correspondence of Ronald Althouse regarding his Ph.D. dissertation on F. Stuart Chapin.

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 Biographical Sketch of Francis Stuart Chapin (1888-1974)

Francis Stuart Chapin was born on February 3, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1909. He also obtained his Master of Arts degree in sociology in 1910 and a Ph.D. in 1911 from Columbia. He taught economics at Wellesley College for one year and then moved to Smith College where he taught sociology and served as department chair (1912-1921). He was also director of the Smith College School for Social Work for three years (1918-1921).

Dr. Chapin accepted the position of professor of sociology and chair of the department in 1922 at the University of Minnesota (1922-1953). In addition to his sociology appointment, he again directed the social work program at the University: the Training Course for Social Work (1922-1950) and served as the first director of the newly developed School of Social Work in 1941.

In 1929, Dr. Chapin took a leave from the University to serve as editor of Social Science Abstracts. Professor Chapin was involved with Social Science Abstracts since its inception. It was he that proposed to the Executive Committee of the American Sociological Society in 1919 that a Committee be appointed to devise a plan to provide indices of abstracts of the literature in the social sciences. In April 1928, Social Science Abstracts was incorporated and publication began in March 1929, continuing monthly through the completion of the fourth volume in December 1932. A decline in subscriptions during the early years of the depression was a major influence in the Social Science Research Council’s decision on September 13, 1932, to discontinue its support of Social Science Abstracts. Even with the immeasurable support and time given by Dr. Chapin, the journal was unable to find sufficient additional financing and ceased publication at the end of 1932.

Dr. Chapin had an untiring work ethic. He was a member of many social science and social work associations, including American Sociological Association, where he served as president in 1936, and the Minnesota Council on Social Agencies, in addition to his work on Social Science Abstracts and teaching at the University. He retired in 1953 as professor emeritus. Dr. Chapin continued to write and edit works on sociology and social work during his retirement up until his death on July 7, 1974.

Partial Subject Inventory American Sociological Society - Folders 2, 41 Banta Publishing Company - Folder 34 Bowman, Isaiah - Folder 18 Burchfield, Laverne - Folder 19 Crane, Robert - Folder 20 Day, Edmund - Folder 21 Dewey, Davis - Folder 22 Dewey, Virginia - Folder 23 Engelbrecht, Helmut C. - Folder 24 Ernst, Rosa - Folder 25 Faris, Ellsworth - Folder 26 Hayes, Carlton J.H. - Folder 27 Hosea, Harold - Folders 28-29 Langer, William - Folder 30 Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial - Folder 41 Lynd, Robert - Folder 31 Ogg, Frederic - Folder 32 Olson, Lois - Folder 33 Peerenboom, C.A. - Folder 34 Rockefeller Foundation - Folder 21 Ross, Frank A. - Folder 35 Sellen, Thorstein - Folder 64 Social Science Abstracts - Folders 1-84 (Board of Directors - Folders 6-9; Editor-in-Chief's Final Report (draft) - Folder 10; Organization - Folders 2, 3-5 ; Termination - Folders 46-54, 82) Social Science Research Council - Folders 3-5, 13-17 Wilson, Halsey W. - Folder 36 Wissler, Clark - Folder 37 Woodbury, Robert - Folders 38-39 Woodworth, Robert - Folder 40 Index Terms

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Persons: Althouse, Ronald C Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 Chapin, F. Stuart (Francis Stuart), 1888- Dewey, Davis Rich, 1858-1942 Engelbrecht, Helmut Carol, 1895- Faris, Ellsworth, 1874-1953 Hayes, Carlton Joseph Huntley, 1882-1964 Hosea, Harold Richardson Lynd, Robert Straughton, 1892- Ogg, Frederic Austin, 1878-1951 Ross, Frank Alexander, 1888- Wilson, Halsey William, 1868 Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 Woodbury, Robert Morse, 1889- Woodworth, Robert Sessions, 1869-1962 Organizations: American Sociological Society Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Research Council University of Minnesota. Dept. of Sociology University of Minnesota. School of Social Work Subjects: Social sciences--Periodicals Sociology -- Study and teaching Titles: <emph render="italic">Social Science Abstracts</emph> <emph render="italic">The intellectual career of F. Stuart Chapin: an examination of a pluralistic behaviorist</emph>, by Ronald C. Althouse, Ph.D. thesis, University of Minnesota, 1964. Contents of Collection 1 1 Abstracts and articles of Chapin, F. Stuart, 1930

1 2 American Sociological Society, 1920-1924

Committee on Social Abstracts, F. Stuart Chapin, Chairman.

 1 3 Social Science Research Council, 1924-1928

Committee on Social Science Abstracts.

 1 4 Social Science Research Council, 1928

Chapin's memoranda; Committee on Social Science Abstracts.

 1 5 Social Science Research Council, 1927-1929

Committee on Organization of the Journal of Social Science Abstracts.

 1 6 Board of Directors, Social Science Abstracts, 1928- May, 1931

Agendas, minutes, correspondence; includes Executive Committee.

 1 7 Board of Directors, Social Science Abstracts, June, 1931-Aug., 1932

Agendas, minutes, correspondence; includes Executive Committee.

 1 8 Board of Directors, Social Science Abstracts, 1932-1934

Agendas, minutes, correspondence; includes Executive Committee.

 1 9 Board of Directors, Social Science Abstracts, 1929-1932

Chapin's memoranda.

 1 10 Editor-in-Chief's final report (draft), 1933

re Social Science Abstracts, by F. Stuart Chapin

 1 11 Joint Luncheon, Social Science Abstracts, Dec. 30, 1930

Arrangements and papers.

 2 12 Joint Luncheon, Social Science Abstracts, Dec. 29, 1930

Arrangements and papers.

 2 13 Social Science Research Council, 1927

Chapin's proposed study of superpower.

 2 14 Social Science Research Council, Committee on Scientific Publication, 1929-1931

2 15-16 Social Science Research Council, Committee on Scientific Publication, 1930-1931

Questionnaire Replies on Publishing Dissertations.

 2 17 Social Science Research Council, 1927-1928

Minutes.

 2 18 Bowman, Isaiah, 1928-1933

2 19 Burchfield, Laverne, 1930-1934, 1940

2 20 Crane, Robert, 1931-1935

2 21 Day, Edmund, 1928-1933

2 22 Dewey, Davis, 1927-1932

2 23 Dewey, Virginia, 1929-Jan., 1931

2 24 Engelbrecht, H.C., 1930-1934

3 25 Ernst, Rosa, 1930-1936

3 26 Faris, Ellsworth, 1929-1933

3 27 Hayes, Carlton J.H., 1928-1933

3 28-29 Hosea, Harold, 1930-1934

3 30 Langer, William, 1931-1932

3 31 Lynd, Robert, 1930-1933

3 32 Ogg, Frederic, 1928-1932

3 33 Olson, Lois, 1931-1933

3 34 Peerenboom, C.A., 1930-1934

Banta Publishing Co. representative.

 3 35 Ross, Frank A., 1930-1934

3 36 Wilson, H.W., 1929-1933

3 37 Wissler, Clark, 1928-1933

4 38-39 Woodbury, Robert, 1930-1933

4 40 Woodworth, Robert, 1931-1932

4 41 General correspondence, 1920-1924

Correspondence re American Sociological Society, Committee on Social Abstracts; correspondence with Laura Spelmen Rockefeller Memorial.

 4 42-45 General correspondence, 1927-1936, 1945

5 46 Termination correspondence with abstractors, 1932

5 47 Termination correspondence with economists, 1932

5 48 Termination correspondence with geographers, 1932

5 49 Termination correspondence with historians, 1932

5 50 Termination correspondence, misc., 1932-1933

5 51 Termination correspondence with political scientists, 1932

5 52 Termination correspondence with sociologists and anthropologists, 1932

5 53 Termination correspondence with subscribers, 1932-1933

5 54 Termination correspondence, summary 1932

5 55 Abbreviations for Social Science Abstracts, 1928-1929

5 56 Budget, 1929-1933

5 57 Budget, 1930-1933

Against funds of Social Science Research Council; Committee on Scientific Publication.

 5 58 Circulation, 1929-1932

5 59 Classification of abstracts, 1927-1931

5 60 Coverage and scope, 1927?-1932

5 61 Coverage, possible cut in abstracts, 1931-1932

5 62 Criticism, 1931-1932

6 63 Editorial notices, Nov., 1930-Nov., 1932

6 64 Evaluation report by Thorstain Sellen, "Social Science Abstracts: an Experiment in Intellectual Co-operation," 1932-1934

6 65 Foreign periodicals, 1927?-1929

6 66 Index, annual, 1929-1934

6 67 Index, cumulative, 1932-1933

6 68 Inventory of surplus copies, 1933

6 69 Organization and Procedure, 1925-1932

6 70 Periodicals in University of Minnesota Library, 1929

6 71 Personnel, 1928-1929

6 72 Production, charts, graphs, schedules, 1928-1929

6 73 Promotion, 1928-1932

6 74 Selection criteria, early 1920s-1929

6 75 Staff address, 1930?-1931

6 76 Staff conferences, 1928-1933

Includes Chapin's pencil notes.

 6 77 Statistics, 1930-1932

6 78 Statistics, assignments and exclusions, 1930-1932

7 79-80 Statistics production, 1929-1932

7 81 Subscriptions, foreign gift, 1932

7 82 Termination, Sale of Equipment, 1933

7 83 Ronald Althouse Interviews with Chapin's former colleagues, 1963, 1964

Comments made at final oral examination of Althouse's Dissertation, 1964.

 7 84-85 Ronald Althouse correspondence with Chapin family and associates, 1963-1964 7 86 Ronald Althouse correspondence with Chapin family, 1963

Notes from an interview with Edward Chapin, 1963

 Social Science Abstracts

Located in the map case