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RG 30/188 - J. Milton Yinger (1916- )
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Series I. Awards and Honors, 1934-1943, 1958-59, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1982-1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, n.d

Box 1

Awards, Certificates, Honors, and Resolutions, 1934, 1958-59, 1968, 1973, 1983, 1987-88, 1992           
Degrees, John Milton Yinger, 1937, 1939, 1943, 1982
            Degrees, Winnie Genevieve McHenry (Yinger), 1935, 1939, 1940
Programs, Flyers, Correspondence, and Miscellaneous materials re honors, awards, and certificates, 1959, 1971, 1976, 1982-83, 1994, 1996, n.d.

Series II. Biographical and Files Relating to the Yinger Family, 1930s-1970s, 1982-1988, 1990, 1996-2003, n.d.

Box 1 (cont.)

Biographical entry; Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, 1998
Biographical file, 1948, 1975-76, 1985, 1987, 1997,1999, n.d.
Curriculum Vitae and professional resumes, 1968, 1974, 2001
Gifts to Oberlin, 1957, 1969-70, 1984-88, 1990
Kendal at Oberlin, 1989, 2001-2003, n.d.
Membership cards and licenses, 1930s-70s
Symposium Session on work of John Milton Yinger, Association of Sociology of Religion, 1977-78
Symposium in honor of John Milton Yinger,  “Religion, Race, and Power: Conflicting Realities in a Changing World,” Oberlin College Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1987
Yinger Family file, 1940, 2000-2002, n.d.
John Yinger (John Milton Yinger’s son), 1982, 1996, 2001-2002
Winnie McHenry Yinger, 1997, 1999, 2002-03, n.d.

Series III. Correspondence, 1937-2003

Subseries 1.  Professional Letters, 1939-2001

Box 1

1939-42
1943-44
1945
1946
1947
1948

Series III. Correspondence, 1937-2003 (cont.)

Subseries 1. Professional Letters, 1939-2001 (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.)

1949
1950
1951-52
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957-58

Box 2

1958  (3f)
1959  (3f)
1960  (3f)
1961  (3f)
1962  (3f)

Box 3

1963  (3f)
1964  (3f)
1965  (3f)
1966  (3f)
1967  (3f)
1968  (3f)

Box 4

1969  (3f)
1970  (2f)
1971  (2f)
1971-72  (Sabbatical)
1972  (2f)
1973  (2f)
1974  (3f)
1975  (3f)

Box 5

1976  (3f)
1977  (3f)
1978  (3f)
1979  (3f)

Series III. Correspondence, 1937-2003 (cont.)

Subseries 1. Professional Letters, 1939-2001 (cont.)

Box 5 (cont.)

1980  (2f)

Box 6

1981  (3f)
1982  (3f)
1983
1984
1985
1986
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994

Box 7

1995
1996
1997
1999
2000
2001

Subseries 2.  Personal Letters, 1937-2003

Box 8

1937-43
1944-47
1948-49
1950-55
1956-64
1965-66
1967-68
1969
1970-73
1974-76
1977-78
1979-83
1989
1984-85
1986
1987
1988

Box 9

1990-91
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Christmas Letters, 1943-2001 (span)

Subseries 3.  Student/Alumni Letters, 1945-46, 1948-59, 1961-89

Box 10

1945-46  (Ohio Wesleyan)
1948-49  (Oberlin)
1950-53 “
1954-57 “
1958-59; 1961-62  (Oberlin)/ 1962  (University of Washington)
1963  (Oberlin and Other)
1964-66  (Oberlin)
1967-70  “            “
1971-73  “            “
1974-75  “            “
1976-78  “            “
1979-81  “            “
1982-84  “            “
1985-87  “            “
1988-89  “            “

Subseries 3.  Student/Alumni Letters, 1945-46, 1948-59, 1961-89 (cont.)

Box 11

Student Recommendations, 1953-1987 (5f) **Restricted**

Subseries 4.  Mixed Letters, 1953-54, 1956-57, 1959, 1962-64,     1967-69, 1972-76, 1987-93, 1998, 2000-2003 n.d.

Box 12

Bernstein, Marc, 1991-92
Blalock, H. M., 1967
Cutler, Steven, 1990, 1992
Clinton, William Jefferson, 1997
D’ Antonio, Bill, 1998
DiRenzo, Gordon, 1974-76
Dukakis, Michael (mock letter), 1988
Editors Letters to, 1956, 1964 (2f)
Editorial work, John Milton Yinger, 1964-1990, 2000-2001
Elder, Joe and Joanne, 1991
Etzioni, Amitai, 1989, 1991
Gates, Robert, 1978-1979
Handbook of Political Psychology, 1972-1974
Ikeda, Kiyoshi, 1973-1975
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1965
Klein, Anna Mary, 1969-70
Lane, Doris A., 1969
Lenski, Gerhard, 1988, 1990
Litwak, Eugene, 1973
Luke, Wing C., 1959
Marx, Gary, 1969, 1976, 1988
Merton, Robert, and Zuckerman, Harriet, 1956-57, 1963-64, 1968, 1972-75, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2003 n.d. (2f)
Mondale, Walter, 1967, 1997
Mondlane, Eduardo and Janet, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1967 [2002/ 43]
Rosenberg, Morris, 1979-80
Religious Research Association, 1960-1992
Simpson, George, 1990-92
Society for the Advancement of Field Theory (SAFT), 1985-1987
Sociological Abstracts Inc., 1979
Tsagarely Family, 1981, 1989, 1990, n.d.
Walters, Karen S., 1969-70
Whilhite, Margaret R., 1978
Williams Jr., Robin, 1953-54, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1967-68, 1975, 1989

Subseries 5. Correspondence Relating to Published Writings, 1943-2003

Box 13

Religion in the Struggle for Power

Author’s contract and related correspondence, 1943-4, 1966
Correspondence, Incoming, 1943, 1946-7, 1959, 1962, 1966-7, 1973
Correspondence, Outgoing, 1943, 1959, 1962, 1966
Published Reviews, 1946-1947, n.d.
Racial and Cultural Minorities
College Library Adoption lists and promotion statistics, 1953, 1972
Correspondence, Incoming, 1953-5, 1958, 1965-8, 1973, 1975
Correspondence, outgoing and to others by others, 1953, 1966-8, 1973-5
Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1949-1971 (2f)
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1971-1983
Published Reviews, 1953-1955, 1958, 1972-1973, n.d.
“Sociology of Religion”
MacMillan Company Correspondence, 1954
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
Correspondence, 1955-57, 1977
Published Review, 1957

Box 14

Religion, Society, and the Individual
Correspondence, Incoming, 1956-63, 1966, 1970-71
Correspondence, Outgoing, by others to others, and college library adoption lists, 1956, 1958-59
Correspondence, 1956-71, 1978, 1990
Published Reviews, 1957-58, 1960, 1964, n.d.

“Contraculture and Subculture”

Correspondence and editorial comment, 1959-1960

Sociology Looks at Religion

MacMillan Company correspondence, 1961-5, 1971, 1977

A Minority Group in American Society
Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, 1963-70, 1976-1977, 1981
Published Reviews, sales report, and college library adoption lists 1965-1967, 1970
Toward a Field Theory of Behavior
Correspondence, Incoming, 1960, 1963, 1965-1969, 1970, 1972-1974, n.d. (2f)
Correspondence, Outgoing and to others by others, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1968-69, 1971-74, n.d.
Correspondence, Incoming and outgoing, 1963-1973
Published Reviews, 1967-1970, 1972
“Treating Matching as a Variable”
Correspondence, 1966-1970

Box 15

The Scientific Study of Religion

Correspondence, Incoming, 1969-1972, 1975, n.d.
Correspondence, Outgoing and by others to others, 1970-2
Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, 1968-1979
Published Reviews, 1971, 1975
Middle Start: An Experimental Study of Educational Enrichment in Early Adolescence
Correspondence and names of participants, 1975-1977
Major Social Issues
Correspondence, Incoming an Outgoing, 1976-1978, 1983 (2f)
Published Reviews, 1978-1982

Countercultures: The Promise and the Peril of a World Turned Upside Down

Free Press (div. of MacMillan) Correspondence, 1980-89

Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict?

Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing, 1999-2003

Box 1
Cincinnati, Mayor’s Friendly Relations Committee, 1953-54
Oberlin College Committee Files

Dean’s Research Group on Black Student Progress, 1986
Educational Program of Oberlin College (EPOC), 1966-67
Asia House Proposal, 1966
General Faculty Committee Files, 1949, 1966-68, 1988

Swarthmore, Visiting Committee for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1968, 1973-76, 1985
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Committee on Social Structure and Socialization, 1961

Series V. Day Planners, 1963-67, 1969-2002           

Box 1

Day Planners, 1963-67, 1969-2002
           

Series VI. Instructional Files, 1949-1998

Subseries 1. Course Materials, 1956-1998

Box 1

Course Titles, Topics, and Related Materials:
American Society
Sociology and Collective Behavior
Humanities Tradition
Ohio Weslyan Courses (1f)

Social Control
Urban Society
Intro to Sociology

Joint Economics – Sociology Seminar
Population Problems
Principles of Sociology
Proseminars
Seminar on Race and Ethnicity Abroad
Race Relations
Social Research
Research Methods
Society, Culture, and Personality (SCAP)
Course Titles, Topics, and Related Materials (cont.):

Sociology of Religion (2f)
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Sociology of Politics
Sociology-Psychology Seminar

Subseries 2. Miscellaneous Instructional Materials, 1957-59, 1961, 1965-67, 1970-71, 1974, 1978, 1988, 1992-94

Box 1 (cont.)

Courses taught at Universities of Michigan, Washington, Hawaii and Wayne State University, 1958-59, 1961, 1965, 1971
Afro-House Survey, “Association of Residence In Black Student Housing and Academic Performance, “ c. 1971
Graded Papers, 1957, 1967, 1970, 1974 (2f)
Hanna, Kathleen, Honors Thesis, 1966
Miscellaneous Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams, 1978, 1988, 1992-94, n.d.

Subseries 3. Grade Books, 1949-1986 -- **Restricted**

Box 1 (cont.)

Grade Books, 1949-1986 (22 books, 38 loose pages)

          
Series VII. Newspaper Clippings, 1946, 1953-1999

Box 1

News Clippings, 1946, 1953-1999

Series VIII. Office of Education Cooperative Research Program (Middle Start), 1963-78, n.d.

Subseries 1.  Administrative Files, 1965-70, n.d.

Box 1

Budgetary records and supporting documents, 1965-70  (4f)
General information about Middle Start, n.d.
Reports submitted to U.S. Office of Education, 1969-70  (2f)

Subseries 2.  Data Collection Files, 1963-70, n.d.

Box 2

Correspondence, 1967-1969, 1970  (4f)

Box 3

Field interviewer information, 1967-69  (17f)

Box 4

Field interview records, 1963-69  (12f)

Box 5

Field interview records, 1963-69, n.d.  (8f)
Follow-Up Program interviews, 1964-68, n.d.  (7f)

Box 6

Questionnaires and Tests, 1965-67  (5f)

Box 7

Student rosters, 1964-69  (22f)

Box 8

Student performance files, 1964-69  (26f)
Adkins—Maringer  (18f)

Box 9

Student performance files, 1964-69  (26f)  (cont.)

Mohr—Zasariti  (8f)

Subseries 3.  Data Analysis Files, 1965-66, 1969, n.d.

Box 10

S.O.P. Codebooks, 1969   (4f)

Box 11

Data analysis reports by K. Ikeda's assistants, 1965-66
Research instruments, n.d.
Thesis outline, n.d.

Series IX. Professional Conferences and Travel Files, 1946, 1956-1989, n.d.

Box 1

China trip, 1979
Conference Files, 1956-67, 1980-81, 1984
Conference on Research: New Directions and Priorities in the Field of Intergroup Relations, 1960
Conference on Relocating the Sacred, 1983
Conference on Scientific Spirit and Democratic Faith, 1946
Conference on Theories of Ethnic and Race Relations (1984), 1983-1986
Fourth General Chautauqua Conference on U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1988-9
France trip, 1986
International Sociological Association (ISA), World Congress, 1961-62, 1978, 1980-83

Box 2

Oberlin College Conferences
Black Religion Conference in honor of George Simpson, 1970-71
Conference on South Africa and Namibia, 1976-79, n.d.
Obirin University Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1991, n.d.
Sabbatical Preperation (travel to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, India, Israel, Greece, Germany, England, and New York City and elsewhere), 1969, 1971
Urban Institute Conference, 1983-84

Series X. Special Educational Opportunities Program Administrative Files, 1963-70, n.d.

Box 1

Minutes and related materials, 1963-69
Miscellaneous administrative files, 1965-69  (3f)
Newspaper clippings, 1966-67
S.O.P, Secondary School Students, 1964-1969

Box 2

Educational news of S.O.P. cities, 1965-70
Monograph pamphlets, 1965-1968  (2f)
Reports on minority education collected by S.E.O.P. staff, 1965-67, n.d.  (4f)

Rockefeller Foundation, 1965-66
Succeed, n.d.
Basic and applied research proposal, 1965

S.O.P. clippings, 1968-72, 1981, 1990

Box 3
            S.E.O.P. Newsletters, 1965-66
                        "OOPS" (occasional), 1965
            "S.O.P. News" (occasional), 1965-66
            S.E.O.P. Summer Program Files, 1964-70  (6f)
"Some Notes on Future Interventions and Their Rationale," paper by K. Ikeda, 1965-67

Series XI. Student Exchange Program With Black Colleges, 1946-1975

Box 1

Correspondence, 1946-65  (5f)

Fiske University, 1950-62
Hampton Institute, 1946-58
Spelman College, 1958-60
Tallageda College, 1951-58
Tougaloo College, 1964-65

Photographs (2), [1967?]
Program Information, 1949-72, n.d.
Student Expense Records, 1948-57, n.d.
Student Reports, 1948-75, n.d.  (4f)

Series XII. Student Papers, 1931-1941

Box 1

Bound Compositions by John Milton Yinger, DePauw University, 1933-36 (1 folder , 7 writings)
DePauw Univeristy, Louisiana State University, and University of Wisconsin school work, 1938-1941, n.d.
Miscellaneous early writings, poetry, and “random thoughts,” 1931-32, 1936-37, n.d.
Oneida research for Professor Wendell Bennett, University of Wisconsin, 1939-40 (2f)

Series XIII. Talks and Lectures, 1939-2002

Subseries 1. Talks at Oberlin College, 1948-2002 (2f), Includes select titles:

Box 1

"American Individualism and World Leadership," January 7, 1954
"...Screaming and Kicking into the Twentieth Century," October 1954
"Visions of the Future," December 2, 1983
Al McQueen's Retirement Banquet, April 7, 1995
"Along Many Trails-- To A Single Destination," May 25, 1996
           
Subseries 2. Talks outside of Oberlin College, 1948-2002 (4f), Includes select titles:

Box 2

Lake Geneva, "What is Americanism?," June 10, 1948
Iowa State Technical College, "Some Problems of American Democracy," October 18, 1948
Mt. Union College Christian Association, "What is Americanism?," December 9, 1948
Ohio Valley Sociological Society, "Toward a Theory of Prejudice," April 1951
Social Science Foundation, "American National Character," November 1953
American Sociological Association, "Toward A Sociology of Religion," August 1955
University of Michigan Sociology Colloquium, "Desegregation as a Challenge to Sociology," April 25, 1956
Cleveland Am. J. Committee, "Group Life in America," January 14, 1957
National Conference of Christians and Jews, "Theoretical Orientation for Inter-Religious Research," January 24, 1957
State NAACP Conference, "Social Factors Hindering and Promoting Desegregation," May 4, 1957
Denison University Convocation, "The Social Sciences Look at the Future," October 7, 1957
Northern Ohio Institute on Police and Community Relations, "Who Are We?," November 21, 1964
Ohio Valley Sociological Society Meeting, "Reforms as Experiments as Reforms," May 1970
Haynes Foundation Lecture at Whittier College, "Middle Start for and Educationally Disadvantaged Minority," March 3, 1972
ASA, "Looking Toward the Future of Social Psychology," August, 1973
Akron University, "Middle Start: An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents," May 15, 1975
American Sociological Association, "Countercultures and Social Change," September 5, 1977
Denison College, "Countercultures," March 10, 1978
"A Discussion of Middle Start," April 18, 1978

Subseries 3. Honorary Degree Citations, 1962-1990

Box 2 (cont.)

Honorary Degree Citations prepared by J. Milton Yinger, 1962-1990

Subseries 4. Miscellaneous (Speech Notes and Statements, Sampled from Drawer), 1939-1997

Box 3

Debates, 1939-1961
Michael Dukakis Mock Speech, 1988
Speech Announcements and Advertisement, 1951-1997
Ethnicity Speeches, 1976-1991 (span)
Alumni Speeches (note cards), 1961, 1969, 1983, 1987
Speeches –Other (note cards), 1947-1987 (2f)
Statements, J. M. Yinger, 1967, 1973, 1979

Series XIV. Topical Files, 1952-2003

Box 1

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 1952-54, n.d.
American Sociological Association (ASA), 1966-78, 2002, n.d. (3f)
East West Center, 1967-69
Great Lakes College Association (GLCA)

Behavioral Research Center, 1967-68

Great Lakes College Association (GLCA) (cont.)

GLCA survey, code book, and data, 1968
Yugoslav-American Seminars and Projects, 1965-1975

Box 2

Great Lakes College Association (GLCA), Yugoslav Project, 1965-71 (2f)
Hawaii Study, 1961, 1965, n.d.
Oberlin College, 1949,1954, 1956-1957, 1969-1975,  1984-1985
Oberlin study of Religion, 1955, 1966-68, 1988
Peace Corps, 1962-63
Segregation, scholastic and residential, 1979, 1987, 1991, 1994
Sociological Research Association (SRA), 2000
Sociology of Religion, research, 1955, 1972-73, n.d.
Survey, Attitude towards U.N., n.d.

Box 3

Terrorism, 1996
Vietnam, 1965-67
World Council of Churches, 1958-1960
Yinger Lecture, Oberlin College, 1984, 19871989-1991, 1998
Yinger Family Lectures, 1983-2003, n.d.

Box 4

Research File Note Cards, n.d.

Series XV. Writings, 1941-2003

(for a listing of the published books and published articles contained in this series, please consult the “checked” curriculum vitae and the writings addendum located in the case file)

Subseries 1. Published

Box 1

Articles, 1946-1979 (5f)

Box 2

Articles, 1980-1988, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003 (3f)
Book Reviews, 1941-2003 (2f)

Box 3

Manuscripts and Penultimate Drafts

Countercultures, Penultimate Draft, 1981 (4f)
Countercultures, Published Reviews, 1983

Box 4

Manuscripts and Penultimate Drafts (cont.)

Middle Start, drafts (penultimate) and copies, 1964-1966, 1975, 1977
Subseries 2. Unpublished, 1942-2003

Box 5
Writings by Yinger

Unpublished Essays, 1942-2003 (2f)
Writings by Yinger (cont.)
Review of Law and Equal Opportunity: Anti-Discrimination Law in Massachusetts, by Leon Hinckley Mayhew, 1961
Writings about Yinger by others
Andrea, Fred W., “A Critical Examination of the Sociology of Religion of J. Milton Yinger: Implications for Selected Problems in Church and Community,” Dissertation Prospectus, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1979
Chao, Peter, “Yinger’s Substructure of Religion: A Chinese Replication,” Dissertation, Graduate School of Loyla University of Chicago, 1982
Writings by others (not about Yinger)
Russell, Wendell Phillip, Jr., History of Oberlin’s Black Students, 1973-1974





 
 
 
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