Sewell, William H., 1909-2001 (Personal Name)

The construction and standardization of a scale for the measurement of the socio-economic status of Oklahoma farm families, 1940: title page (William H. Sewell)

Sociology at Wisconsin, website, 10 November 2006 (William Hamilton Sewell; b. 27 November 1909, Perrinton, MI; d. 24 June 2001) http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/pages/sewell/sewell_bio.html

Education, occupation, and earnings: achievement in the early career, 1974: title page (William H. Sewell)

A model of stratification with response error in social and psychological variables, 1983 title page (William H. Sewell)

Wikipedia, June 4, 2015 (William H. Sewell; William Hamilton Sewell was a United States sociologist and the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1967-1968; he is the father of William H. Sewell, Jr.; he was born in Perrinton, Michigan on November 27, 1909; he attended Michigan State University where he received his BA in 1933 and his MA in 1934, both in sociology; he then attended the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph. D. in sociology in 1939; he briefly taught at Michigan State and Oklahoma State before he became a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1946, where he stayed until becoming the chancellor in 1967; Sewell was known for his research in the sociology of inequality, especially in schooling, as well as his empirical approach to sociology; he became Chancellor of the Madison campus in the midst of the Vietnam War and student protests; after a tough year due to protesting, he resigned the Chancellorship in June 1968 and returned to research and teaching; in 1971 Sewell served as the President of the American Sociological Association; he died in Madison, Wisconsin on June 24, 2001)