Settlement sociology in the progressive years : faith, science, and reform / by Joyce E. Williams, Vicky M. MacLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Joyce E., author.

MacLean, Vicky M., author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences

Studies in critical social sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social settlements--United States--History.

Social settlements.

Progressivism (United States politics).

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 433 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2016.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: In search of Sociology

Problems in search of solutions : Science, religion, and education in the Progressive era

Neighborhood settlements : Residence, research and reform

Hull house : Feminist pragmatism and the Chicago women's school of sociology

Back of the yards : The University of Chicago settlement

Chicago commons : Settlement and social gospel in action

Boston's South end house : a sociological laboratory

The college settlements association : Breaching gender and class in cities

Henry Street : where health became a public issue

Greenwich House : The house that Mary built

Recovering a paradigm lost : Public Sociology then and now

Appendix A: Selected works of the Chicago Women's School of Settlement Sociology

Appendix B: A comparison of some aspects of the Urban Sociology of South end house and University of Chicago sociologists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-422) and indexes.

ISBN:

1608466426

9781608466429

OCLC:

923553389