... it finally led him to decide on what he wanted to do in his life. ( Coser, 1977)in 1890, Cooley returned to the University of Michigan for graduate work in political economy and sociology? (Major). He wrote a dissertation entitledThe Theory of Transportation,? a pioneering study in human ecology, and was granted a ... 1890, as well as his aforementioned dissertation, both grew from two years of work in Washington, first from the Interstate Commerce Commission and later for the Bureau of the Census. These were written in the tough-minded andrealistic? tradition of whish his father presuma...

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