Hubert J. O'Gorman papers
Scope and Contents
5 Paige boxes of subject and research files received from Robert Aseltine, Jr. These documents do not seem to be from Sociology 202 and hence do not fall under the 30 year exclusive access agreement made with Mr. Aseltine. They are notes and preliminary research and drafts for unfinished research projects which were kept by Mr. Aseltine with the intent of turning them into a posthumous or joint publication. The bulk concern a book-length monograph on the concept of pluralistic ignorance. cf. book proposal in Box 1.
Dates
- Creation: dates unknown
Creator
- O'Gorman, Hubert J. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Biographical / Historical
Hubert J. O'Gorman was born in 1925 and received a BA, MA and PhD from Columbia. He was a visiting professor at Wesleyan from 1966-67 and receiving an MA from Wesleyan in 1969. He would stay in Middletown becoming a professor of Sociology. O'Gorman passed away in 1990.
Books written by Hubert J. O'Gorman
Sex and Morality in the U.S.: An Empirical Engquiry Under the Auspices of the Kinsey Institute.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Lawyers and Matrimonial Cases: A Study of Informal Pressures in Private Professional Practice (1963 and 1990)
Extent
5 Linear Feet (18 paige boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Papers belonging to Hubert J. O'Gorman.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in the order it was received.
Subject
- O'Gorman, Hubert J. (Person)
- Title
- Hubert J. O'Gorman papers, dates unknown
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Erica Ciallela
- Date
- June 11, 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository