Diverse histories of American sociology / edited by Anthony J. Blasi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blasi, Anthony J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--United States--History.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The collection tells the story of early American sociology from the vantage point of women, racial, ethnic, regional, and religious minorities, outsiders, and important representatives of intellectual movements that were not merged into the mainstream of the discipline.

Contents:

List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Anthony J. Blasi; 1. The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement (Jane Addams); 2. A Private Trouble behind the Gendered Division of Labor in Sociology: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park (Mary Jo Deegan); 3. The Scholar Practitioners; The Development of Clinical Sociology in the United States (Jan Fritz); 4. The Neglected Contributions of Female Sociologists in the American South (Kay Richards Broschart); 5. The Early Sociological Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois (Robert A. Wortham)

6. The Legacy of Julian Samora: Development of Theory for the Study of Undocumented Immigration (Victor Rios, Jr)7. The Sociology of William J. Kerby of Catholic University (Anthony J. Blasi); 8. Jesse Lawson and the National Sociological Society of 1903 (Michael R. Hill); 9. Resisting Sociology's Seductive Name: Frederick J. Teggart and Sociology at Berkeley (Jonathan VanAntwerpen); 10. Women, African Americans, and the ASA, 1905-2005 (Mary Jo Deegan)

11. ""Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind"": From Caucus of Black Sociologists to the Association of Black Sociologists (Bette J. Dickerson)12. Intellectual Wasteland or Garden of Eden? Sociology in the American South before 1950 (Kay Richards Broschart); 13. Sociology at Women's and Black Colleges, 1880s-1940s (Vicky M. MacLean and Joyce E. Williams); 14. Sociology in American Higher Education (Anthony J. Blasi); 15. Chicago in 1930: Maurice Halbwachs' Outsider View of the City and its Sociologists (Suzanne Vromen)

16. Veblen, Innis, and the Classic Tradition: North American Economic Sociology (Ross Mitchell)17. Sociology in Hawai'i: Beginnings (Jeffrey L. Crane); 18. Community Studies as Trajectories in the Development of Sociology (Joyce E. Williams and Vicky M. MacLean); References; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-439) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-86805-8

9786610868056

1-4294-5302-8

90-474-0741-5

1-4337-0668-7

OCLC:

476023849