Oral history interview with Hope Jensen Leichter [electronic resource], 1984.

Biographical Note

Educator, sociologist.

Scope and Contents

Education; Harvard Sociology Department, 1950s; family background; early research work, Russell Sage Foundation; kinship studies; career in education; research under Spencer Foundation: social networks and educative style, applications; Elbenwood Center: establishment, Spencer influence in development, philosophy, recent research, contributions to education; National Institute of Education, government funded research; "Mediation of Television by the Family" study; changes in structure and definition of family; future courses of Elbenwood Center.

Subjects

• Educational sociology.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Families--Research.
• Federal aid to education.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Interviews
• Kranz, Bella, interviewer.
• Leichter, Hope Jensen.--Interviews.
• National Institute of Education (U.S.)
• Oral histories
• Spencer Foundation.
• Television and families.
• Women college teachers--Interviews.

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