Biographical History

Howard M. Bahr (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University.

Howard M. Bahr (born 1938) received a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in psychology from Brigham Young University in 1962. He received his M.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, followed by his Ph.D. in sociology in 1965. Following a full-time research appointment at Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research where he studied urban homelessness, he joined the sociology faculty at Washington State University in 1968. He became a professor of sociology at Brigham Young University in 1973, retiring in 2014. His research includes studies of urban problems, ethnicity, family relations, social theory, religion, and social change. He was among the researchers who, in the 1970s, replicated Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown studies. Following that, for over a decade he participated in a multi-national study of social trends in advanced industrial societies. His work with wife and fellow BYU professor Kathleen Bahr includes family theory and research among Navajo and Apache families, and they jointly authored Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences: Love, Sacrifice, and Transcendence (2009). His continuing interest in the sociology of Latter-day Saints is manifest in his final books, Saints Observed and Four Classic Mormon Village Studies (2014). Bahr is also known for his book, Skid Row: An Introduction to Disaffiliation.

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UPB Files, February 3, 2022 (Howard M. Bahr; born 1938; bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in psychology from Brigham Young University in 1962; M.A. in sociology from University of Texas at Austin in 1964; Ph.D. in sociology in 1965; full-time research appointment at Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, studied urban homelessness; sociology faculty at Washington State University in 1968; professor of sociology at Brigham Young University 1973-2014; research includes studies of urban problems, ethnicity, family relations, social theory, religion, and social change; among the researchers who, in the 1970s, replicated Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown studies; for over a decade participated in multi-national study of social trends in advanced industrial societies; work with wife and fellow BYU professor Kathleen Bahr includes family theory and research among Navajo and Apache families; co-authored Toward More Family-Centered Family Sciences: Love, Sacrifice, and Transcendence (2009); wrote Saints Observed and Four Classic Mormon Village Studies (2014), Skid Row: An Introduction to Disaffiliation)

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