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| Frank H. Hankins | |
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| Born | (1877-09-27)September 27, 1877 Willshire, Ohio, US |
| Died | January 23, 1970(1970-01-23) (aged 92) New York, New York, US |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Clark University |
| Thesis | Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician (1908) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Ludwell Moore |
| Doctoral students | Melvin M. Knight |
Frank Hamilton Hankins (Willshire, Ohio - September 27, 1877 – Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, January 23, 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist who was the president of the American Sociological Society in 1938. He wrote the book The Racial Basis of Civilization (1926) which was critical of notions of racial superiority and racial theories such as Aryanism, Gobinism, Celticism, Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism.
Hankins grew up in Kansas and received an A.B. from Baker University in 1901. He served as superintendent of schools in Waverly, Kansas for two years before entering Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation, “Adolphe Quetelet as Statician” (1908), was an important contribution to the development of empirical sociology.
Hankins served as a member of the Clark University faculty for sixteen years (1906-1922), and head of the Department of Political and Social Science beginning in 1908. He contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals, lectured frequently at other universities, studied social conditions in Europe before and after World War I, and taught at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques (Paris) in 1921. He joined the Smith College faculty in 1922 as Professor of Sociology, and for many years he served as department chairman, until he left in 1946.
Hankins' ground-breaking study, The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine, was published in 1926. In 1928, he published An Introduction to the Study of Society, a textual treatise presenting his principal theoretical and substantive concerns and convictions.
In 1930, Hankins was elected the first President of the American Sociological Society, and in 1945 President of the American Population Association. He also taught and lectured widely, serving on the faculties of Amherst College, Columbia, Berkeley, the Army Center at Biarritz, and, following his retirement from Smith, the University of Pennsylvania. In 1933 he was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
He died in New York City on January 23, 1970.
Works
- Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician (1908)
- The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (1926)
- An Introduction to the Study of Society: An Outline of Primary Factors and Fundamental Institutions (1928)
- Reminiscences of Frank Hamilton Hankins (1968)
References
- ^ "Hankins, Frank Hamilton". Smithipedia.
- Reuter, E. B. (1927). "Review of The Racial Basis of Civilization". American Journal of Sociology. 32 (5): 841–842. doi:10.1086/214248. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2765661.
- "Humanist Manifesto I". American Humanist Association. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- "Dr. Frank Hankins, Professor Emeritus at Smith College". Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. January 24, 1970. p. 11. Retrieved September 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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