Rose Monograph Series

The first 13 volumes of the ASA Rose Monograph Series (established in 1967 through a bequest to the ASA from Arnold and Caroline Rose) were self-published by the Association and have become classics in the field.

These early volumes are available in full-text PDF format to ASA members.

• Ambition and Attainment: A Study of Four Samples of American Boys by Alan C.Kerckhoff (1974) (1.04MB)
  
• Attitudes and Facilitation in the Attainment of Status by Ruth M. Gasson, Archibald O. Haller, and William Sewell (1972) (410K)
  
• Black and White Self-Esteem: The Urban School Child by Morris Rosenberg and Roberta G. Simmons (1972) (1.8MB)
  
• Black Students in Protest: A Study of the Origins of the Black Student Movement by Anthony M. Orum (1972) (1.05MB)
  
• Deviance, Selves and Others by Michael Schwartz and Sheldon Stryker (1971) (1.2MB)
  
• Ethnic Stratification in Penisular Malaysia by Charles Hirschman (1975) (1.02MB)
  
• The Greek Peasant by Scott McNall (1974) (1MB)
  
• Interorganizational Activation in Urban Communities: Deductions from the Concept of System by Herman Turk (1973) (710K)
  
• Looking Ahead: Self-Conceptions, Race and Family as Determinants of Adolescent Orientation to Achievement by Chad Gordon (1972) (1.3MB)
  
• Patterns of Contact with Relatives by Sheila R. Klatzky (1972) (1.08MB)
  
• Patterns of Scientific Research: A Comparative Analysis of Research in Three Scientific Fields by Lowell Hargens (1975) (1.15MB)
  
• Socioeconomic Background and Educational Performance by Robert M. Hauser (1972) (1.73MB)
  
• The Study of Political Commitment by John DeLamater (1973) (988k)
  

For more information on the Series (now the ASA Rose Series in Sociology), see http://www2.asanet.org/pubs/rose.html.