Mary Jo Deegan

Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918

Jane Addams is well known for her leadership in urban reform, social settlements, pacifism, social work, and womens suffrage.The men of the Chicago School are well known for their leadership in founding sociology and the study of urban life.What has remained hidden however, is that Jane Addams played a pivotal role in the development of sociology and worked closely with the male faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. By using extensive archival material, Mary Jo Deegan is the first to document Addamss sociological significance and the existence of a sexual division of labor during the founding years of the discipline. As the leader of the womens network, Addams was able to bridge these two spheres of work and knowledge.Through an analysis of the changing relations between the male and female networks, Deegan shows that the Chicago men varied widely in their understanding and acceptance of her sociological though and action.Despite this variation, it was through her work with the men of the Chicago School that Addams left a legacy for sociology as a way of thinking, an area of study, and a methodological approach to data collecting. This previously unexamined heritage of American sociology will be of value to anyone interested in the history of the social sciences, especially sociology and social work, the development of American social thought, the role of professional women, the Progressive Era, and the intellectual contributions of Jane Addams.

Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook.

Preface Introduction Edith Abbott Jane Addams Hannah Arendt Emily Greene Balch Simone de Beauvoir Jessie Bernard Sophonisba Breckinridge Ruth Shonle Cavan Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts Smith Coolidge Rose Laub Coser Katharine Bement Davis Irene Diggs Frances Donovan Lucile Eaves Charlotte Perkins Gilman Margaret Jarman Hagood Amy Hewes Leta Stetter Hollingworth Joan Huber Helen MacGill Hughes Florence Kelley Frances Kellor Susan Kingsbury Viola Klein Alexandra Kollontai Mirra Komarovsky Elizabeth Briant Lee Rose Hum Lee Helena Znaniecka Lopata Helen Merrell Lynd Annie Marion MacLean Harriet Martineau Alice Masaryk Alva Myrdal Virginia Olesen Elsie Clews Parsons Matilda White Riley Caroline Baer Rose Alice S. Rossi Ethel Shanas Dorothy E. Smith Anna Garlin Spencer Irene B. Taeuber Jessie Taft Marion Talbot Dorothy Swaine Thomas Mary van Kleeck Rosalie Wax Beatrice Webb Ida B. Wells-Barnett Hattie Plum Williams Appendix: Additional Notable Women Sociologists Author Index Subject Index

American ritual dramas : social rules and cultural meanings

Preface Introduction A Theory of American Drama and Ritual: Critical Dramaturgy Participatory Rituals The Meet/Meat Market Ritual Having Fun, Killing Time, and Getting a Good Deal The Big Red Dream Machine: Nebraska Football by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael Stein Media-Constructed Rituals The Presentation of the City on Fat-Letter Postcards by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill Star Trek and the Freudian Formula: Feminists Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before The Wonderful Vision of Oz Conclusion A Theory of Liberating Rituals Bibliography Index

“DEAR LOVE, DEAR LOVE” Feminist Pragmatism and the Chicago Female World of Love and Ritual

The history of women in sociology is explored here through the correspondence written by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Marion Talbot in the summer of 1936. Their loving letters reveal the ideas and practices of feminist pragmatism and the female world of love and ritual located in Chicago in the twentieth century. This world of professional women flourished around the social settlement Hull House and the University of Chicago during the founding years of sociology. Their lives and social thought challenge our understanding of the emergence of sociology at the University of Chicago, and their ideas remain a rich resource for analyzing society today.

Women and Disability: The Double Handicap.

The special needs of women with disabilities have been disregarded in a wide variety of vital areas. Issues pertain to women as wives and mothers. Studies of the effects on female sexuality of such conditions as renal disease and diabetes are lacking, though the sexual functioning of men with these diseases has been researched. On the economic front, the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation system and the regulations concerning disability benefits under Social Security provide less adequately for women than for men. Hopefully, this volume will raise the consciousness of its readers to the special status of women with disabilities as a minority group experiences multiple sources of discriminations.

THE CONTROVERSIAL CLASSROOM: INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES AND PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR A RACE RELATIONS COURSE*

The problems encountered in teaching race relations courses have been the central focus of recent discussions about pedagogical approaches to controversial topics. These discussions, while invaluable, fail to fully explore two issues: first, the need for collective as well as individual strategies to deal with the problems generated by race relations courses; and second, the unique experiences of graduate students of color teaching this class at predominantly white universities. This paper offers a model for a collective strategy that departments can use to more effectively deal with problems associated with such courses. This model is provided by a year-long workshop organized by our department to analyze and address challenges posed by race relations classes. Our workshop was racially and ethnically diverse, allowing us a unique opportunity to deliberately explore the experiences of teachers of color. Drawing from this diversity, we develop a multidimensional analysis of the institutional and pedagogical constraints that create problems for race relations instructors, and we sketch a multidimensional approach to minimizing these problems.

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

G. H. Mead, the eminent social psychologist, had an active civic life. His work in social reform was directly influenced by and derived from his philosophy of man and society. This facet of his life is relatively unexamined today, although most of his publications during his lifetime were concerned with the application of science for the good of the community.

W.E.B. Du Bois and the women of hull-house, 1895–1899

An important aspect of W.E.B. Du Bois’s professional socialization is documented; specifically, Du Bois’s professional interactions with women sociologists who practiced in social settlements, notably Jane Addams, Katherine Bement Davis, Florence Kelley, and Isabel Eaton. These women, and their research in Hull-House Maps and Papers, were facilitators and role models for Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro, in which Isabel Eaton was a significant collaborator. Addams, Kelley, and their friends joined Du Bois to cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an exemplar of applied sociology and Du Bois’s shared interests with the early Hull-House women. These early sociologists changed American thought and social policy and today provide a rich heritage for contemporary professionals in sociology.

Textbooks, the History of Sociology, and the Sociological Stock of Knowledge

Textbooks increasingly reflect changes in our sociological stock of knowledge about the founders of the discipline. Richard Hamilton is unaware of this research and its documentation of the flaws in earlier accounts of the history of the profession. In an effort to expand his disciplinary understanding, I briefly review the extensive scholarship on the sociology of Harriet Martineau which has been published over the last quarter of a century.

The human drama behind the study of people as potato bugs : The curious marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park

Robert E. Park played a central part in defining sociology as a natural science. He imagined sociologists as unbiased and unaffected by the human behavior they studied. He particularly criticized the work of female sociologists who applied their sociological knowledge with the help of hundreds of thousands of clubwomen. He mocked these clubwomen and their ‘do-goodism’. Clara Cahill Park, his wife, was one of these clubwomen who engaged in all the work he mocked and she was allied with female sociologists. This resulted in a curious situation where Park supported his wife and engaged in social reform while simultaneously he criticized clubwomen and the work of applied sociologists.