DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN SOCIOMETRY

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to call attention to a large, relatively untapped source of material in the field of sociometry.
The scholar embarking on a serious study of the field of sociometry finds that the available resources are ( 1) Moreno's works, (2) The International Handbook of Sociometry, (3) Sociometry (particularly those volumes published by Beacon House before 1956), ( 4) no more than one dozen books, (5) Sociometry Monographs, 1-42, (6) scattered chapters in Social Psychology- Education texts, (7) The Handbook of Social Psychology, (8) Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama ( occasional articles), (9) the files of E.R.E.C., ( 10) fugitive materials, ( 11) about 30 articles per year published in miscellaneous journals, ( 12) materials included in books in the area of "small groups," (13) Masters Theses, and (14) Doctoral Dissertations.