259:. Mayo (who was in fact the figurehead of an investigation team composed of T.N. Whitehead, F.J. Roethlisberger, W. J. Dickson, and others) was exploring the social and psychological dimensions of industrial settings and stimulated Warner's interest in contemporary society. Warner became involved in Mayo's project of studying the workplace and organizational structure using the Western Electric Hawthorne plant in Chicago as its location. Warner's contribution consisted of the introduction of anthropological techniques of observation and interviewing, an innovation that helped cultural explanations to emerge from data analysis. He was largely responsible for the design of the third phase of the Hawthorne project known as the
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possibilities of legislating social change at a time when many social scientists were eager to be policymakers, Warner's focus on uncomfortable subjects made his work unfashionable. Warner's interest in communities (when the social science mainstream was stressing the importance of urbanization) and religion (when the fields' leaders were aggressively secularist) also helped to marginalize his work. More positive assessments of his work have recently emerged.
209:. He formed a deep friendship with Mahkarolla, his main Murngin informant, whom he described in an appendix to his 1947 book. From 1929 to 1935, Warner studied at Harvard in the Department of Anthropology and the Business School, trying to obtain his Ph.D. He used his study among Murngin for his dissertation, which was later published in his first book,
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contributed to the disappearance of this once-fashionable conception. An empiricist in an era when the social disciplines were increasingly theoretical, fascinated with economic and social inequality in a time when
Americans were eager to deny its significance, and implicitly skeptical of the
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In 1921, he transferred to New York to pursue a career in acting. The plan did not work well, and Warner returned to
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236:(1929–1935) as a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate School of Business School Administration. His first book,
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Despite his impressive productivity and wide range of interests, Warner's work has long been out of fashion. The noted
Marxist sociologist
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Herbert M. Hunter, Sameer Y. Abraham, "Race, class, and the world system: the sociology of Oliver C. Cox", Monthly Review Press, 1987
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in 1918 and was released from the service. In 1918, he married Billy
Overfield, but the marriage lasted only briefly.
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Aboriginal Tribes of
Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1949. Social Class in
America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status.
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1960. Social class in
America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status.
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1931. Morphology and
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Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1941. Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City.
240:(1937), followed the conventional anthropological path of studying so-called "primitive people."
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1947. The Social System of the Modern Factory. The Strike: A Social Analysis.
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1959. The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans.
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1946. Who Shall Be Educated? The Challenge of Unequal Opportunities.
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to social anthropology. He also developed friendships with anthropologists
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The Living and the Dead: A Study in the Symbolic Life of Americans
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The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1942. The Status System of a Modern Community.
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Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1963. Big Business Leaders in America.
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Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
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Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
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Warner, W. Lloyd. 1967. The Emergent American Society.
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