Richard Thacker Morris
Richard Thacker Morris (1917-1981) was a professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of ''The Two-Way Mirror: National Status in Foreign Students' Adjustment'' (1960), as well as ''The White Reaction Study'' (1967), an important work on urban race relations. Academic career Morris earned his Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1952, where his doctoral dissertation employed the paradigm method in order to develop a general Conceptual model, model of social stratification. In addition to his dissertation and two published books, his work also included numerous articles which appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, ''Sociological Inquiry'', and ''Sociology and Social Research''. He held a professorship at UCLA from 1953–1976, during which time he did research as a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands (1963–64). During his tenure at UCLA, he al ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus, with the Columbus metro area, Greater Cincinnati, and Greater Cleveland being the largest metropolitan areas. Ohio is bordered by Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes". Its state flag is the only non-rectangular flag of all the U.S. states. Ohio takes its name from the Ohio River, which in turn originated from the Seneca word ''ohiːyo'', meaning "good river", "great river", or "large creek". The state arose from the lands west of the Appalachian Mountai ...
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