12 Facts About Earl Babbie

Earl Babbie is best known for his book The Practice of Social Research, currently in its 15th English edition, with numerous non-English editions.

Earl Babbie was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Vermont and New Hampshire.

From 1960 to 1963 Babbie served tours in the United States Marine Corps, as a disbursing officer in Okinawa, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines.

Earl Babbie stayed at University of California, Berkeley to complete a Ph.

Earl Babbie moved to Hawaii where he taught sociology at the University of Hawaii.

Earl Babbie taught there from 1968 to 1979, at which point he resigned to pursue a full-time research and writing career for the next 8 years.

In 1987, Earl Babbie joined the faculty at Chapman University in Orange, California where he remained until retirement from teaching in January 2006.

Earl Babbie is best known for his many textbooks he has written, which have been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United States and elsewhere.

Earl Babbie is an author of research articles and monographs.

Earl Babbie is a past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association.

In 2016, Earl Babbie launched an online project, Solutions without Problems, coining the term soluprobs.

In 1988, Earl Babbie was announced as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, at California State University, and Honorary Member, Honors Program Student Association, 1994.