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

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 an...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 75
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 75.
Physical Description:1 online resource (445 pages)
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Table of 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.