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Manuscript/Mixed Material Consumption and Leisure as Topics of Research for the Social Science Research Council.

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Title

  • Consumption and Leisure as Topics of Research for the Social Science Research Council.

Created / Published

  • 1931

Headings

  • -  Recreation
  • -  Consumers
  • -  Moral and ethical aspects
  • -  Research
  • -  Consumption (Economics)
  • -  Social sciences
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Typescripts of three Social Science Research Council (SSRC) internal planning documents, preserved by Robert S. Lynd, who served as the council's permanent secretary, indicate possible SSRC research initiatives on the subjects of consumption and leisure. The projected studies reflect the field of consumerism as it had developed throughout the 1920s. The first typescript is an eleven-page report, "Consumption and Leisure as a Field for Research," tagged "March 1931: Appendix II," undertaken by the Committee on Consumption and Leisure and submitted by Wesley C. Mitchell, chairman of the SSRC, to the Council and its Committee on Problems and Policy. The second typescript, "Minutes: Consumption and Leisure," dated June 24 and 25, 1931, and unattributed, appears to be the revised notes from a meeting held that summer by the council. The third typescript is a sixteen-page report on consumption and leisure by Max Handman, the chairman of that interim committee, tagged "June 1931: Appendix XVI" and based on suggestions made at an April 24, 1931, meeting in Chicago. This report contains such sections as "Consumption for Beauty," "Consumption as Self expression," "Consumption as a Substitute for Activity," and "Consumption for Courtship and Marriage," as well as the section "Consumers' Grievances." Entire folder reproduced as facsimile page images: 31 images.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Container 2. Writings: Robert S. Lynd, 1922-65, undated Folder: Robert Lynd Research Projects - Social Science Research Council, 1931-33
  • Microfilm accession #18,297 (Reel 2)

Source Collection

  • Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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