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Between Passion and Reason: On Researching in the Archives

As our loyal readers know, in January 2017 we mounted an exhibit, Mapping the Territory: Maps and Papers from the Romanzo Adams Social Research Laboratory. This exhibit is our most recent project to explore and showcase the RASRL Collection and encourage others to use this unique resource.   As it turns out, the exhibit also has…

May 2, 2017 in Archival Research, Mapping the Territory, Maps, RASRL Collection, Research methodology.

No. XII Case Studies – Delinquents

Recently we came upon a small subset of materials in RASRL that is unlike the rest of the student work in the Collection. If these papers are in response to an assignment, it isn’t one we’d come across before. The authors don’t sound like undergraduates, and after reading thousands of papers we know what undergraduate…

October 19, 2015 in Archival Research, Hawaiians, Juvenile Delinquents, Social Sciences.

Normal School and Haole Teachers

Given the large number of student papers in RASRL, one might expect that a good share of them would be about education. After all, education was what brought RASRL faculty and students together. Yet only a handful of papers are about UH and none, in our search thus far, focuses on the public schools as…

June 25, 2015 in Archival Research, Haole, Hawaiians, Jobs and Occupations, Territorial Normal and Training School.

What Some People in Hawai‘i Said and Did

As mentioned in other Thinking Locally posts, the RASRL Collection contains more than just student papers. “What People in Hawaii are Saying and Doing” is a series of thirty-eight reports, covering the years 1943 to 1963 and published by UH’s Sociology Department for the purpose of sharing new research on topics of current interest with…

February 3, 2015 in Archival Research, Hawaiians, RASRL Collection, Research methodology.

RASRL Family Papers

In this paper, I shall attempt to fulfill the purpose set forth before me, that is, “to develop an objective, critical, and analytical attitude” in the study of my family. I shall attempt to erase all biases and sentimentalism and deal with it as an object (R. T., “A Sociological Study of the Family,” Folder:…

January 6, 2015 in Archival Research, RASRL Collection, RASRL writers, Sociology.

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