ABSTRACT
The Atlanta Sociological Laboratory is the moniker used to denote the period of organized sociological inquiry in the Sociology Department at Atlanta University between 1895–1924. The Atlanta Sociological Laboratory often utilized Atlanta University alumni, graduates and students of predominately Black colleges and universities, and educated residents of cities and towns throughout the southern United States as community researchers. Elliott M. Rudwick criticizes William Edward Burghardt DuBois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory for not comparatively utilizing data on the Coleman Manufacturing Company. The deficiency of the 1907 investigation, similar to the critique of the 1898 monograph, extends from Rudwick's belief that the resolutions were "not developed out of the data presented in the monograph". "Some 'resolutions,'" according to Rudwick, "were promulgated by the committee of the conference, of which Du Bois was a member, and a 'crisis' was stressed in Negro organizational living". Rudwick also found the 1912 monograph to be sounder than other Atlanta University studies.
