ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Edwin H. Sutherland's graduate studies at the University of Chicago. It reveals a young man undecided about the direction his studies should take. The chapter explains why he changed his major from history to sociology and examines how he fell under the influence of Charles R. Henderson and then, later, W. I. Thomas. It then describes Sutherland's growing disillusionment with sociology. The chapter also examines how he turned toward Robert F. Hoxie and political economy in search of a value-free and objective social science by which human behavior and society could be understood and controlled. It explores how, in 1913, he emerged from the University of Chicago with an ambiguous professional identity and a collection of research interests more suited to an economist than to a sociologist, albeit with a doctorate in both sociology and political economy. Sutherland enrolled in a sociology course that first summer at Chicago.
