Background and Early Education
Sutherland grew up and studied in Ottawa, Kansas and Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1904 he received s B.A. from Grand Island College, and after that, he taught Latin, Greek, history, and shorthand for two years at Sioux Falls College in South Dakota. In 1906 he left Sioux Falls to enter graduate school at the University of Chicago from which he received his doctorate. He changed his major from history to sociology. Much of his study was influenced by the Chicago school's approach to the study of crime, which emphasized social and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic or personal characteristics, as determinants of human behavior.
Read more about this topic: Edwin Sutherland
Famous quotes containing the words background, early and/or education:
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.”
—Henry Reed (1914–1986)
“A good education is another name for happiness.”
—Ann Plato (1820–?)