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Franklin H. Giddings, 1855-1931.

Frankling H. Giddings

American economist and sociologist. 

Originating from Connecticut, Franklin H. Giddings started off as a journalist, before he began teaching at Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania. Giddings was a member of the Columbia economics faculty from 1894 until the establishment of a separate sociology department in 1905.   Giddings is considered one of the founders of American sociology.

In economics, F.H. Giddings was one of the early critics of Böhm-Bawerk's capital theory and a collaborator with John Bates Clark in the theory of distribution.  He got into a little methodenstreit with Simon N. Patten in the 1890s over the exact relationship between economics and sociology.

In sociology, Giddings theory of  "consciousness in kind" has often been compared to the concept of "sympathy" in Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments, and an early identification "herd behavior".   Giddings was a promoter of the use of statistics in sociology.

 

  

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Major Works of Franklin H. Giddings

  • "The Persistence of Competition", 1887, PSQ (Mar), p.62 [js] (repr as Ch.2 of Clark & Giddings, 1888)
  • "The Theory of Profit-Sharing", 1887, QJE, (Apr) p.367 [js] (reply to Aldrich)
  • "The Natural Rate of Wages", 1887, PSQ (Dec), p.620 [js] (repr. as Ch. 4 of Clark & Giddings, 1888)
  • "Review of Bonar's Letters of Ricardo to Malthus", 1888, PSQ (Mar), p.179 [js]
  • "The Sociological Character of Political Economy", 1888, Pub AEA (Mar) p.29-47 [js]
  • "Review of History of Cooperation in the United States (JHU Studies, H. B. Adams ed.)", 1888, PSQ (Sep),  p.529 [js]
  • The Modern Distributive Process: Studies of competition and its limits, of the nature and amount of profits, and of the determination of wages in the industrial society of today (with John Bates Clark), 1888 [bk, av]
  • "Review of Patten's Stability of Prices", 1889, PSQ (Mar) p.183 [js]
  • "Review of NP Gilman's Profit Sharing and Dexter's Co-operative Savings and Loan Associations",  1889, PSQ (Jun),  p.336 [js]
  • "The Cost of Production of Capital", 1889, QJE (July) p.503-07 [js]
  • "Review of F. Wieser's Naturliche Werth" 1889, PSQ (Dec), p.681 [js]
  • "The Theory of Capital" (reply to Bonar), 1890, QJE (Jan), p.172-206 [js]
  • "The Province of Sociology", 1890, AAPSS, [js]
  • "Review of MacVane's Working Principles", 1890, AAPSS [js]
  • "Review of G. Hansen's Die drei Bevolkerungsstufen", 1890, PSQ (Sep), p.529 [js]
  • "The Concepts of Utility, Value and Cost", 1891, Pub AEA (Jan-Mar), p.41-43 [js] (abstract)
  •  "Review of Jager's Die Franzosische Revolution", 1891, PSQ (Mar), p.176 [js]
  • "The Growth of Capital and the cause of interest: A reply to Böhm-Bawerk and Bonar", 1891, QJE p.242-48 [js]
  • "The Ethics of Socialism", 1891, IJ Ethics, [js]
  •  "Sociology as a University Study", 1891, PSQ (Dec),  p.635 [js]
  •  "Review of Miaskzowski' Agrarpolitische Zeit und Streitfragen and Problem der Grundbesitzverteilung", 1891, PSQ (Dec), p.743 [js]
  • "The Nature and Conduct of Political Majorities", 1892, PSQ (Mar), p.116 [js]
  • "Review of Lestrade's Elements de Sociologie, Gumplowicz's Sociologie et politique, and De Geef's Lois Sociologiques", 1892, PSQ (Jun), p.350 [js]
  • "Review of Lambroso and Laschi's Le Crime Politique et les Revolutions", 1892, PSQ (Dec), p.721 [js]
  •  "Review of Jephson's The Platform", 1892, PSQ (Dec), p.736 [js]
  • "The Ethics of Social Progress", 1893, IJ Ethics [js]
  • "The Idea and Definition of Value (abstract & discussion)", 1893, Pub AEA (Jan) p.87 [js] (discussion by R.T. Ely, E.A. Ross,  J.B. Clark, E.W. Bemis, S.N. Patten, W.W. Folwell)
  • The Theory of Sociology, 1894. (Supp. APSS) [js]
  • "Utility, Economics and Sociology", 1894, AAPSS [js]
  • "Discussion of A.W. Small's Relation of Sociology to Economics", 1895, Pub AEA (Mar-Supp), p.110 [js] (also Patten, Ward, Ashley)
  • "Sociology and the Abstract Sciences: The origin of social feeling", 1895, AAPSS [js]
  • The Principles of Sociology: An analysis of the phenomena of association and of social organization, 1896 [bk]
  • "The Destinies of Democracy", 1896, PSQ [js]
  • The Theory of Socialization, 1897 [bk]
  • "Review of Spencer's Sociology", 1897, Science [js]
  • "The Ethical Motive", 1898, IJEthics [js]
  • "Imperialism?", 1898, PSQ [js]
  • Elements of Sociology, 1898 [1910 ed.]
  • "The Psychology of Society", 1899, Science [js]
  • "The Economic Ages", 1901, PSQ [js]
  • Inductive Sociology, 1901 [bk]
  • Democracy and Empire, 1901 [bk]
  • "The Economic Significance of Culture", 1903, PSQ [js]
  • "A Theory of Social Causation", 1904, Pub AEA [js]
  • "Comment on Fetter on Rent and Interest", 1904, Pub AEA [js]
  • "The Contents and Methods of Sociology", 1904, Science [js]
  • "The Heart of Mr. Spencer's Ethics", 1904, IJEthics [js]
  • "The Laws of Evolution", 1905, Science [js]
  • Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology, 1906 [bk]
  • "Sovereignty and Government", 1906, PSQ [js]
  • "The Measurement of Social Pressure", 1908, Pub ASA, p.56, [js]
  • "Are Contradictions of Ideas and Beliefs Likely to Play an Important Group-Making Rôle in the Future?, 1908, AJS [js]
  • Sociology, 1908 [bk]
  • "The Social Marking System", 1910, AJS [js]
  • "The Relation of Social Theory to Public Policy: Presidential Address to ASA", 1911, AJS [js]
  • "The Relation of the Criminal to Society", 1911, AAPSS [js]
  • "The Quality of Civilization", 1912, AJS [js]
  • Pagan Poems, 1914 [bk]
  • "The Service of Statistics to Sociology", 1914, AJS [js]
  • The Western Hemisphere in the World of Tomorrow, 1915 [bk]
  • "The Crisis in Social Evolution", 1915, Problems of Readjustment after the War, p.73
  • "The Democracy of Universal Military Service", 1916, AAPSS [js]
  • "Bases of a Just and Enduring Peace", 1917, AAPSS [js]
  • Americanism in War and Peace, 1917 [ha]
  • The Responsible State, 1918 [bk]
  • "Pluralistic Behavior: A brief of sociological theory restated", 1920, AJS [js]
  • "A Theory of History", 1920, PSQ [js]
  • Studies in the Theory of Human Society, 1922 [bk]
  • "The Grounds of Presumption", 1922, J of Philosophy [js]
  • "Measurement of Social Forces", 1922, J of Social Forces [js]
  • The Scientific Study of Human Society, 1924
  • The Mighty Medicine: Superstition and its medicine, 1929 [ha]
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Resources on Franklin H. Giddings.

Contemporary

  • "Some Objections to Profit-Sharing" by Richard Aldrich, 1887, QJE (Jan), p.232 [js]
  • "Giddings's Cost of Production of Capital", by James Bonar, 1889, QJE,  (Oct)  p.81-83 [js]
  • "Professor Giddings on the Theory of Capital" by J.  Bonar & E. v. Böhm-Bawerk, 1890, QJE  (Apr), p.346-49 [js]
  • "Review of Giddings's Principles of Sociology", by S.N. Patten, 1896, Science [js]
  • "The Cause of Interest: Comment on Giddings" by David Green, 1891, QJE, p.361-65 [js]
  • "Discussion on Giddings's Social Causation", 1904, Pub AEA [js]
  • "The Sociological Theories of Franklin H. Giddings", by C.H. Northcott, 1918, AJS, [js]

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