Secrets about Arthur Vidich & his Sociological Work You Were Afraid to Ask: A Twelve Question Quiz - Answers Revealed Today

How much do you know about Arthur Vidich and his professional career as an anthropologist, sociologist and military officer in the Marine Corps?

Most of the following quiz questions can be answered by reading Arthur Vidich’s autobiography, A Critical Eye and by perusing the blog site dedicated to his life and work.  

The first person to get all of the correct answers will be given a copy of the video made of the Vidich/Bensman conference held on May 5-7, 2017 – a $50 value!  

To win, please email your answers in the comment option on this blog site and include information on how you can be contacted. The answers to this multiple choice quiz will be posted in mid September 2017.

ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH'S QUIZ ARE SHOWN IN BOLD BLUE FONT BELOW.  

1. Arthur Vidich and Joseph Bensman wrote a book about a fictitious town named “Springdale.” What was the name of the real town? Take a guess.
a. Westport, CT
b. Candor, NY
c. Ithaca, NY
d. Cohoes, NY

2. Where did Arthur Vidich live when he wrote Small Town in Mass Society?
a. New York State
b. London
c. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
d. Madison, Wisconsin
e. Cambridge, Massachusetts

3. What Japanese City, made famous by its destruction by an American atomic bomb, was the place where Arthur Vidich, as a marine lieutenant,  invaded Japan and began a one year career of de-militarizing the Japanese? 
a. Nagasaki
b. Hiroshima
c. Tokyo
d. Kyoto

4. What Japanese town did Arthur Vidich visit because of an ethnography written by John Embree?
a. Suye Mura
b. Kurume
c. Naha
d. Kagoshima

5. Arthur Vidich worked at the New School for Social Research for 40 years. Do you know who was instrumental in promoting his appointment?
a. Hannah Arendt
b. Joseph Bensman
c. Stanford Lyman
d. Hans Speier

6. Robert Jackall and Arthur Vidich collaborated to create an eight volume series called “Main Trends of the Modern World.” Name at least one of the editors they chose to work on specific volumes in this series?
a. Michael Hughey
b. Harry Dahms
c. Stanford Lyman
d. Alfred Tauber
e. All of the Above

7. The introduction to Paul Radin’s The Method & Theory of Ethnology was written by Arthur Vidich. Why was Vidich enamored of Radin’s theories of ethnology?
a. They emphasized historical context
b. They focused on the need for self-examination prior to cultural analysis
c. They recognized the constant challenge of revisiting one’s own cultural biases
d. All of the above

8. Arthur Vidich conducted an anthropological study of a South Pacific island while a graduate student. What island did he study and what university was he attending at the time?
a. Palau, University of Wisconsin
b. Fiji, Harvard
c. Palau, University of Michigan
d. Puerto Rico,  London School of Economics

9. After the Springdale study was published did Arthur Vidich ever return to the fabled town?
a. Yes
b. No

10. Name the sociologists who co-authored books with Arthur Vidich that remained his life-long friends.
a. Maurice Stein, Joseph Bensman
b. Stanford Lyman, Robert Jackall
c. Guy Oakes, Ronald Glassman
d. All the above
e. Hannah Arendt, Hans Gerth
f. None of the above

11. What individuals were Arthur Vidich’s students as well as collaborators?
a. Robert Jackall
b. Mike Hughey
c. Ronald Glassman
d. Hans Gerth
e. Stan Lyman
f. Talcott Parsons
g. Guy Oakes
h. Only a, b and g
i. Only a, b and c

12. During Arthur Vidich’s sabbaticals at what schools did he teach?
a. Harvard, London School of Economics,  Yale
b. Universidad Nacional, New College, University of California at San Diego, Brandeis, Clark University 
c. Kansas State University, Sarah Lawrence College, Boston College
d. Middlebury College, Antioch, Berkeley