Talk:William I. Thomas

I am parking the following paragraph here:
 * Moreover, W. I. Thomas precisely stated (in 1923) that particularly within every-day-life social worlds any definition of the situation will not only influence the present but - whenever following a series of definitions the individual is involved in - also "gradually a whole life-policy and the personality of the individual himself" (The Unadjusted Girl. With Cases and Standpoint for Behavioral Analysis; N.Y.: Evanston; London: Harper & Row, ³1967, 42). Consequently, it was no surprise that W. I. Thomas whenever investigating societal problems like, e.g., intimacy, family, education, basically stressed the rôle of the situation when detecting a social world "in which subjective impressions can be projected on to life and thereby become real to projectors." (Edmond H. Volkart [ed.], Social Behavior and Personality. Contribution of W.I.Thomas to Theory and Social Research. N.Y.: Social Research Council, 1951, 14)

This was apparently copied and pasted from somewhere into the introduction by an anonymous user, where it seems a bit out of place. Maybe it can find a new home at some other place in the article (check for copyright violation first). --Thorsten1 12:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi, I´m that a.u., having read your Thomas-quotation "If people view somebody as great, then he is" (another, more specific version of the Thomas theorem), I´d like to get hold of the very source...you don´t mind me asking for, do you ? For, to quote an old slur I learned when I was, some 30 years ago, a student of the social sciences, running, afaIr (as far as I remember): "Scholarly quoting without any source is like proletarian shagging without a French kiss but with a  French Letter...";-) NW/Nov. 22nd, 2005
 * Hi 217.185.247.48/145.254.135.154, I still don't believe that the paragraph is well-placed there. You may want to include the information somewhere below, where the definition of the situation is discussed. It simply looks kind of unwieldy, especially in or right after the introduction. As for the Thomas quotation you are referring to, I really do not know where it comes from, and personally I think it is rather dispensable, too. If you wish to include references anywhere, you should use footnotes in the Wikipedia format (see Cite sources, Footnotes and various pages linked from there).
 * On the formal side, please always put four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of your posts. This will automatically create a signature and a time-stamp, which makes discussions much easier to follow. You should also take care to use indentation by putting one or more colons at to beginning of every paragraph to make the structure of the discussion clearer. If you wish to contribute more often, you may want to consider getting a user name.--Thorsten1 22:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

While at Oberlin,

 * Upon his return to the United States in 1889, he taught as professor of English and, from 1894, professor of sociology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. While at Oberlin,

The paragraph is rather obviously incomplete. Shenme 02:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)