Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These are correspondence, survey questionnaires, data tabulations, a draft report, and published articles relating to a socio-economic study of the Pine Mountain community in Harlan County, Kentucky by Berea College Sociology professor, Dr. Roscoe Giffin, in 1950.

Dates

created: 1948-1965

Creator

Giffin, Roscoe Raymond. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

No restrictions other than federal copyright regulations. Please cite materials.

Extent

3.20 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to write several articles, three of which were published as a series in Mountain Life and Work in 1953. Giffin apparently based the design of his study upon one utilized by the University of Kentucky Department of Rural Sociology in a 1949 survey of farm families by U.K. professors, Ward W. Bauder and James S. Brown.

Arrangement Note

Arrangement of the collection is by series: Rough Draft Materials; Articles and Reports; Correspondence; Questionnaires, Tabulations, and Code sheets; Pine Mountain School; Miscellaneous Maps and Papers; Follow-up Study. The finding aid was updated in March 2015.