Mabel Agnes Elliott, We Hardly Knew You

Sociologist Mabel Agnes Elliott was elected the fourth president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1956–1957 and was the first woman to hold this position. She was an anti-war activist, a feminist and a creative and diligent writer. Yet she experienced many challenges. The Federal B...

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Published inThe American sociologist Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 259 - 278
Main Authors McGonigal, Kathryn, Galliher, John F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 01.12.2008
Springer US
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Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
20th century
Academic Careers
Activism
Archives
Archives & records
Author productivity
Awards & honors
Biographies
College faculty
Crime
Criminology
Elliot, Mabel Agnes
Females
Feminism
Gender Discrimination
Higher education
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Kansas
Memory
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Pennsylvania
Personal profiles
Presidents
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Sex discrimination
Single Sex Colleges
Social disorganization
Social issues
Social Problems
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Society
Society for the study of social problems
Sociology
United States history
War
Women
Women Faculty
Womens Education
Kansas
Pennsylvania
United States > US
Iowa
Missouri
Society for the study of social problems
Feminist
Mabel Agnes Elliott
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Summary:Sociologist Mabel Agnes Elliott was elected the fourth president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1956–1957 and was the first woman to hold this position. She was an anti-war activist, a feminist and a creative and diligent writer. Yet she experienced many challenges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation kept an active file on Elliott for approximately 30 years, she was the victim of discrimination by her male colleagues at the University of Kansas where she spent much of her career and Professor Robert E. L. Faris used many of the ideas from her Social Disorganization textbook without attribution. In spite of her research productivity her salary was frozen for 18 years. Once she began teaching women at Chatham College she found an institution that appreciated her many talents and rewarded her appropriately. Even so, in a male-dominated discipline, her contributions to criminology and social disorganization have been nearly forgotten.
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ISSN:0003-1232
1936-4784
DOI:10.1007/s12108-008-9052-z