Explain results of willard waller’s research that he did in the 1930s.

Williard Waller (1899–1945) was an American sociologist whose reserachs were mainly related to the sociology of the family and also about the sociology of education and of the military.

He mainly contributed exploring the processes of courtship and divorce. He established the so-called principle of least interest, which states that the person who is part of the group, but is the one having the least interest of continuing with the relationship, is the one who has the most power over it. He applies the concept to personal, business and other types of relationships.

In 1932, he published The Sociology of Teaching. He is described as an early classic in the field of education. He extended, for the first time, the idea of considering schools as organizations with an important social role.

Waller concluded that casual dating was a form of entertainment that had little to do with mate selection. That the status attainment and excitement were at the center of the dating process  and partners were selected based on status characteristics.