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 ; Volume 75.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social settlements--United States--History.

Social settlements.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill, 2015.

Summary:

Settlement Sociology in the Progressive Years claims for sociology a lost history and paradigm only recently acknowledged for shaping the American sociological tradition. Williams and MacLean trace the key works of early scholar activists through the leading settlement houses in Chicago, New York and Boston. The roots of sociology as a public enterprise for social reform are restored to the canon through early research, teaching and social advocacy. The settlement paradigm of “neighborly relations” combining the visions of social gospelers and first-wave feminists will resonate for a renewed public sociology today. Key to this paradigm was the movement to "settle" in neighborhoods and become active in the struggle for social change in a period of rapid industrialization, immigration, and urbanization.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

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

References

Subject Index

Name Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28757-4

OCLC:

904036852

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004287570 DOI