Richard Thacker Morris (April 28, 1917 – March 17, 1981) was a professor of

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at the

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. He was the author of ''The Two-Way Mirror: National Status in Foreign Students' Adjustment'' (1960), as well as ''The White Reaction Study'' (1967), an important work on urban

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Academic career

Morris earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1952, where his doctoral dissertation employed the

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method in order to develop a general

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. In addition to his dissertation and two published books, his work also included numerous articles which appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as the

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, ''Sociological Inquiry'', and ''Sociology and Social Research''. He held a professorship at UCLA from 1953 to 1976, during which time he did research as a

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in the

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(1963–64). During his tenure at UCLA, he also served as Acting Dean of the School of Social Welfare, and later as Chairman of the Department of Sociology. He was also an associate editor and book review editor of ''American Sociological Review''.University of California: In Memoriam, 1985
"Richard T. Morris, Social Welfare: Los Angeles," by Maurice Connery, Eliot Rodnick, and Melvin Seeman (retrieved on March 13th, 2010).

References

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