Murray George Ross (Sydney, April 12, 1910 - July 20, 2000) was a Canadian professor of social sciences and university director. Life and work
The Ross, born in Canada in 1910, studied economics and sociology in Canada. He was employed at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University in the United States. He graduated at the University of Toronto in 1951. In 1955 he became a professor at this university. From 1960 to 1970 he was Executive Vice President of York University of Toronto, the university from which he was also professor of social sciences from 1960 to 1972. His study, published in 1955, Community Organization (in 1957 translated into Dutch as a community organization) also had great influence outside of Canada and the United States. For the Netherlands, his work, announced and propagated by Jo Boer, then Director of Construction Drenthe, was the foundation of post-war construction work.
Ross developed methods to enable communities (eg villages, neighborhoods or neighborhoods) to address and solve their own problems. According to Ross, this is the practical implementation of democratic concepts, whereby a community (a community) itself manages its own business, and through which, based on Ross's outlined principles, confidence and self-strength are sustained and strengthened.
Ross died in 2000 at the age of ninety. Bibliography Externe link
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