Edward C. Hayes
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1868 – 1928
Who was Edward C. Hayes?
Edward Cary Hayes was a pioneer in American sociology and was a founder and president of the American Sociological Association.
Edward Cary Hayes was born on February 10, 1868 in Lewiston, Maine. He received a bachelor's degree from Bates College and then studied at the Cobb Divinity School. He then became a pastor in Augusta, Maine until 1896 when he became a Dean at Keuka College. In 1899 he enrolled at the University of Chicago to study philosophy but soon began to study sociology. He studied under Albion Small and alongside George Herbert Mead, John Dewey and James Tufts. Hayes then spent a year in Germany at the University of Berlin, where he studied with Georg Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, Friedrich Paulsen, Alfred Vierkandt and Georg Simmel. Hayes was one of the pioneers promoting in bringing sociology into the American educational system. He received his doctorate in 1902.
Hayes went on to teach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the University of Illinois. He wrote many books and articles including, Introduction to the Study of Sociology and Sociology and Ethics.
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- Born
- 1868
United States of America - Also known as
- Edward Hayes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Bates College
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Employment
- Miami University
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Lived in
- Maine
- Died
- 1928
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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