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Franklin Henry Giddings (March 23, 1855 – June 11, 1931) was an American sociologist and
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Interview on the economic aspects of the War by Edward Marshall, ''New York Times''. Published January 9, 1915
* * Franklin Henry Giddings Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. People from Sherman, Connecticut American political writers American male non-fiction writers American sociologists Fellows of the American Statistical Association Presidents of the American Sociological Association Economists from New York (state) 1855 births 1931 deaths Union College (New York) alumni Mathematicians from New York (state) Economists from Connecticut {{US-sociologist-stub
Franklin Henry Giddings (March 23, 1855 – June 11, 1931) was an American sociologist and economist
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Biography
Giddings was born atSherman, Connecticut
Sherman is the northernmost and least populous town of Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,527 at the 2020 census. The town was formed in 1802 from the northern part of New Fairfield. It is named for Roger Sherman ...
. He graduated from Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...
(1877). For ten years he wrote items for the Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ...
''Republican'' and the ''Daily Union''. In 1888 he was appointed lecturer in political science
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at Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...
; in 1894 he became professor of sociology at Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. From 1892 to 1905 he was a vice president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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His most significant contribution is the concept of the consciousness of kind, which is a state of mind whereby one conscious being recognizes another as being of like mind. All human motives organize themselves around consciousness of kind as a determining principle. Association leads to conflict which leads to consciousness of kind through communication, imitation, toleration, co-operation, and alliance. Eventually the group achieves a self-consciousness of its own (as opposed to individual self-consciousness) from which traditions and social values can arise.
In 1914 he became one of the inaugural Fellow
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s of the American Statistical Association
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., retrieved 2016-07-16.
Works
* ''The Modern Distributive Process'' (in collaboration with J.B. Clark, 1888). * ''The Theory of Sociology'' (1894). * ''The Principles of Sociology'' (1896). * ''The Theory of Socialization'' (1897). * ''Elements of Sociology'' (1898). * ''Democracy and Empire'' (1900). * ''Inductive Sociology'' (1901). * ''Descriptive and Historical Sociology'' (1906).See also
*Collective behavior
The expression collective behavior was first used by Franklin Henry Giddings and employed later by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, and Neil Smelser to refer to social processes and events w ...
References
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Interview on the economic aspects of the War by Edward Marshall, ''New York Times''. Published January 9, 1915
* * Franklin Henry Giddings Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. People from Sherman, Connecticut American political writers American male non-fiction writers American sociologists Fellows of the American Statistical Association Presidents of the American Sociological Association Economists from New York (state) 1855 births 1931 deaths Union College (New York) alumni Mathematicians from New York (state) Economists from Connecticut {{US-sociologist-stub