Herbert H. Hyman papers, 1942-1985
Herbert H. Hyman papers, 1942-1985
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1444
- Bib ID:
- 6619504 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Hyman, Herbert Hiram, 1918-
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 7.14 linear feet (17 boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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Description
Summary
The papers deal primarily with Hyman's professional research interests and projects, and include material on both published and unpublished projects. In general, Hyman grouped materials together by topic or project. The files also include some course, lecture and teaching materials; budgets, code books, correspondence, course materials, drafts, grant files, proposals, research, surveys, and typescripts.
The papers reflect Hyman's interest in education, socialization, and attitude change. They include files on research projects related to blind individuals, civil liberties, comparative survey research, desegregation in schools, public opinion, race and race relations, and widowhood. At the time of his death, Hyman was researching the history of survey research; there are several files related to the project.
Hyman often kept files on similar subjects or projects together in small groups. For example, the files on research projects include large sets of files on two topics. The first set of files relates to Hyman's research study on the blind, referred to in reports as "Communication, Perception and Social Behavior: Explorations in These Fundamental Processes through the Study of the Inter-group Relations and Attitudes of the Blind." This project was started in the early 1960s at Columbia University. The files include code books, correspondence, proposals, and reports. Although Hyman produced several articles from the research, the unrest at Columbia University in 1968 caused the disruption and abandonment of the project.
The second set of files relates to the Office of War Information (OWI). These files include code books, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and background material. Although Hyman did work for the Surveys Division of OWI during World War II, it is clear from his correspondence that he also conducted research on this topic in the early 1980s. It is not clear if these materials document Hyman's research activity, his work at OWI, or both.
There are two items which appear to date from Hyman's time as a student: a course paper (1942) and a resource list of materials relating to Social Psychology written with Gardner Murphy. Both are in Box 2. Otherwise, the collection contains no material from Hyman's pre-professional activities.
A few files that contain biographical information and reviews of Hyman's work are filed in Boxes 5, 7, and 10. There are a few publicity photographs of Hyman in the "Personal Data" file in Box 7; otherwise, there are no photographs in the collection. The collection does not contain any material related to Hyman's personal life or interests.
Arrangement
The files have been left in the order in which Herbert Hyman stored them during his lifetime.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Herbert H. Hyman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accrual
No additions are expected
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was: Source of acquisition--Mrs. Helen Kandel Hyman in. Method of acquisition--donated by; Date of acquisition--1989.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Catherine N. Carson.
Finding aid written by Catherine N. Carson in April 2008.
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Biographical / Historical
Biographical information for Hyman can be found in the Historical Biographical Files of the University Archives. The file includes both a curriculum vita and a list of his writings that date from 1985.
Herbert H. Hyman was born in New York City on March 3, 1918.
Hyman received all of his degrees from Columbia University. He completed a bachelor's degree in 1939, a master's in 1940, and a PhD. in Social Psychology in 1942. During World War II, Hyman worked for the United States Government. At first, he worked as a Social Science Analyst for the Division of Program Surveys in the Department of Agriculture. From 1942-1944, he worked as a Public Opinion Analyst in the Surveys Division of the Officer of War Information. From 1942-1946, he was involved in the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Germany and the Bombing Survey of Japan, and in 1947, he was a member of the Expert Mission on Public Opinion and Sociological Research, Army of Occupation, Japan.
In 1947, Hyman became a Senior Project Director at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). He joined the faculty of Columbia University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology in 1951, although he continued to work part-time at NORC until 1957. While at Columbia, Hyman chaired the Sociology Department (1965-1969) and served as the Associate Director for the University's Bureau of Applied Research (1957-1969). He also served as the Program Director for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva (1964-1965). From 1969 until his retirement, he was a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University. During his career, Hyman also held visiting professorships and lectureships at several institutions, including the Universities of California at Berkeley, Oslo, Ankara, Turin and Milan, Catania and Turin, Temple University, and MIT.
Hyman was the author of four books on public opinion polling, and is credited with helping to advance the science of polling. He is well-known as a survey researcher, and had strong interests in education, socialization, and attitude change. But as David Sills notes in his review of Surveying Social Research: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman, Hyman did not see survey work as a purely technical exercise. He felt that survey work was "both a method for obtaining information needed by policy makers and scholars and a form of ethnography - a way of enabling people to reveal their culture and their feelings to a researcher.".
Hyman married Helen Kandel, a freelance writer, in 1945. The couple had two sons, Alex and David, and a daughter, Lisa. Hyman died in China after suffering a heart attack in December 1985. He had traveled to the country to speak at a conference on "Uses of Sociology in Developing Countries" at Zhongshan University.
Subject Headings
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Files
Box 1 Folder 1
(In Turkish)
Box 1 Folder 2
(In Turkish)
Box 1 Folder 3
Box 1 Folder 4
Box 1 Folder 5
Box 1 Folder 6
Box 1 Folder 7
(Draft for book chapter and correspondence)
Box 1 Folder 8
Box 1 Folder 9
Box 1 Folder 10
(Hyman wrote an article for the Handbook of Political Psychology in 1973)
Box 1 Folder 11
(Inter-University Consortium for Political Research)
Box 1 Folder 12
Box 1 Folder 13
Box 1 Folder 14
Box 2 Folder 1
(Compiled by Gardner Murphy and Herbert Hyman)
Box 2 Folder 2
(Proposal and correspondence)
Box 2 Folder 3
(Draft)
Box 2 Folder 4
(Course paper)
Box 2 Folder 5
(Turkey)
Box 2 Folder 6
(Correspondence, typescript)
Box 2 Folder 7
Box 2 Folder 8
Box 2 Folder 9
Box 2 Folder 10
(Lecture at the University of Michigan)
Box 2 Folder 11
(Correspondence; typescript)
Box 2 Folder 12
Box 2 Folder 13
Box 2 Folder 14
(Includes teaching materials and a research proposal entitled, "Problems and Principles of Secondary Analysis of Survey Data: A Proposal for the Codification of Past Experience Leading to the Improved Utilization in the Future")
Box 2 Folder 15
Box 2 Folder 16
(Research on school desegregation)
Box 2 Folder 17
(Book reviews)
Box 2 Folder 18
Box 3 Folder 1
(Grant for "The Enduring Effects of Education")
Box 3 Folder 2
(Royalties for "Survey Design and Analysis")
Box 3 Folder 3
Box 3 Folder 4
Box 3 Folder 5
Box 3 Folder 6
(Related to research for "History of the Sample Survey Method of the United States")
Box 3 Folder 7
Box 3 Folder 8
Box 3 Folder 9
(The piece is "England and America: Climates of Tolerance and Intolerance")
Box 3 Folder 10
(Related to the reprinting of his dissertation)
Box 3 Folder 11
(Related to "The Enduring Effects of Education")
Box 3 Folder 12
Box 3 Folder 13
(Related to "The Effects of Unemployment: A Neglected Problem in Modern Social Research")
Box 3 Folder 14
Box 3 Folder 15-16
(Related to "Strategies in Comparative Survey Research," written for Quantitative Methods: Focused Survey Research and Casual Modeling)
Box 3 Folder 17
(This is related to "Opinion Measurement" written for the International Encyclopedia of Communications)
Box 3 Folder 19
Box 3 Folder 20
Box 4 Folder 1
Box 4 Folder 2
Box 4 Folder 3
Box 4 Folder 4
Box 4 Folder 5
(Typescript; Drafts)
Box 4 Folder 6-7
Box 4 Folder 8
Box 4 Folder 9
(Correspondence; drafts)
Box 4 Folder 10
Box 4 Folder 11
Box 4 Folder 12
Box 5 Folder 1
Box 5 Folder 2-3
(See the preceding Folder for a larger table of contents)
Box 5 Folder 4
(Correspondence with R.A. McGonigal)
Box 5 Folder 5
Box 5 Folder 6
(Includes reading list; drafts of research writings)
Box 5 Folder 7
(Drafts; typescripts)
Box 5 Folder 9
(Includes correspondence)
Box 6 Folder 1
Box 6 Folder 2
Box 6 Folder 3
(SOC 223)
Box 6 Folder 4
Box 6 Folder 5
Box 6 Folder 6
Box 6 Folder 7
Box 6 Folder 8
Box 6 Folder 9
Box 6 Folder 10
Box 6 Folder 11
Box 6 Folder 12
(Full title is "Problems and Principles of Secondary Analysis of Survey Data: A Proposal for Codification of Past Experience Leading to Improved Utilization in the Future")
Box 6 Folder 13
Box 6 Folder 14
(Related to the Italian edition of "Survey Design and Analysis")
Box 6 Folder 15
Box 6 Folder 16
Box 6 Folder 17
(This is "Strategies in Comparative Survey Research, written for Quantitative Methods: Focused Survey Research and Casual Modeling")
Box 6 Folder 18
Box 6 Folder 19
(Correspondence on Hyman's contribution to "Studying Politics Abroad: Field Research in Developing Areas")
Box 6 Folder 20
Box 7 Folder 1
Box 7 Folder 2
(Title of typescript is "New York State and the 1956 Presidential Election: A Survey Sample of Voters")
Box 7 Folder 3
Box 7 Folder 4
Box 7 Folder 5
Box 7 Folder 6
Box 7 Folder 7
(Written by Hyman)
Box 7 Folder 8
Box 7 Folder 9
(Includes correspondence on retirement plans)
Box 7 Folder 10
(Related to a report evaluating a "Survey of Consumer Reactions to Three Reader's Digest Promotional Mailing Pieces")
Box 7 Folder 11-12
Box 7 Folder 13
Box 7 Folder 14-15
Box 7 Folder 16
Box 8 Folder 1
Box 8 Folder 2
Box 8 Folder 3
Box 8 Folder 4
Box 8 Folder 5
Box 8 Folder 6-7
Box 8 Folder 8
Box 8 Folder 9
Box 8 Folder 10
Box 8 Folder 11
Box 8 Folder 12
Box 9 Folder 1-5
Box 9 Folder 6
Box 9 Folder 7
Box 9 Folder 8
Box 9 Folder 9
Box 9 Folder 10
Box 9 Folder 11
Box 9 Folder 12
(Ratings of the proposal)
Box 9 Folder 13
Box 9 Folder 14
Box 9 Folder 15
Box 9 Folder 16
Box 10 Folder 1
Box 10 Folder 2
Box 10 Folder 3-4
Box 10 Folder 5
Box 10 Folder 6
Box 10 Folder 7
Box 10 Folder 8
Box 10 Folder 9
Box 10 Folder 10
(Social Research Curriculum Project--Research in Race Relations)
Box 10 Folder 11
(Written for Hyman's reception of the Helen Dinerman Memorial Award)
Box 10 Folder 12
Box 10 Folder 13
(Some of this relates to "England and America: Climates of Tolerance and Intolerance")
Box 10 Folder 14
Box 10 Folder 15
Box 10 Folder 16
Box 11 Folder 1
Box 11 Folder 2
Box 11 Folder 3
(Consultation work for Pepsi Challenge Commercials case)
Box 11 Folder 4
Box 11 Folder 5
Box 11 Folder 6
Box 11 Folder 7
Box 11 Folder 8
Box 11 Folder 10
(Corrected Copy)
Box 11 Folder 11
(Research Proposal)
Box 11 Folder 12
Box 11 Folder 13
Box 11 Folder 14
(This is related to "A Personal History of Survey Research")
Box 11 Folder 15
(The appears to be related to the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan)
Box 11 Folder 21
Box 12 Folder 1
Box 12 Folder 2
Box 12 Folder 3
Box 12 Folder 4-5
Box 12 Folder 6
Box 12 Folder 7
Box 12 Folder 8
Box 12 Folder 9
Box 12 Folder 10
Box 13 Folder 1-2
Box 13 Folder 3
Box 13 Folder 4
Box 13 Folder 5
Box 13 Folder 6
Box 13 Folder 7
(Appendix D)
Box 13 Folder 8
Box 13 Folder 9
Box 13 Folder 10
Box 13 Folder 11-12
Box 13 Folder 13
Box 13 Folder 14
Box 13 Folder 15
Box 13 Folder 16
Box 13 Folder 17
Box 13 Folder 18
Box 13 Folder 19
Box 13 Folder 20
Box 13 Folder 21
Box 13 Folder 22
Box 13 Folder 23
Box 13 Folder 24
Box 14 Folder 1
Box 14 Folder 2
Box 14 Folder 3
Box 14 Folder 4
Box 14 Folder 5
Box 14 Folder 6
Box 14 Folder 7
(Correspondence; Survey Designs)
Box 14 Folder 8
Box 14 Folder 9
Box 14 Folder 10
Box 15 Folder 1
Box 15 Folder 2
Box 15 Folder 3
Box 15 Folder 4
Box 15 Folder 5
Box 15 Folder 6
Box 15 Folder 7
Box 15 Folder 8
Box 15 Folder 9
Box 16 Folder 1
Box 16 Folder 2
Box 16 Folder 3-4
Box 16 Folder 5-6
Box 16 Folder 7
Box 17 Folder 1
Box 17 Folder 2
Box 17 Folder 3
Box 17 Folder 4
Box 17 Folder 5-7
Box 17 Folder 8