Stuart C. Dodd

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Stuart Carter Dodd (1900-1975) was an American sociologist and an educator, who published research on the Middle East and on mathematical sociology.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1926. He began his career as professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Section of the American University of Beirut. During World War II, Dodd directed opinion survey work for the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Sicily and the Near East.

After the war, he was appointed director of the newly created Public Opinion Laboratory, the precursor for the Institute For Sociological Research at the University of Washington, where he remained until 1961

[edit] Publications

He authored several textbooks for the university's curriculum, most notably

1931, Social Relationships in the Near East (1931),
1934, A Controlled Experiment on Rural Hygiene in Syria
1936, The Standard Error of a 'Social Force
1942, Dimensions of Society: A Quantitative Systematics For the Social Sciences
1943, A Pioneer Radio Poll in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine'
1947, Systematic Social Science: A Dimensional Sociology