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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"history of sociology"”.
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Did Harriet Martineau's sociological methods influence Emile Durkheim's sociological methods?
… Emile Durkheim (1855-1917) published The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) 57 years later. Durkheim's book has traditionally been labeled as the first sociological methodology text, while Martineau's book has been virtually forgotten by modern day sociologists. The author identifies …
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The Chicago school: A metascientific study
The value of the concept of 'school' in metascience is examined with reference to the 'Chicago School, of sociology during the period from 1900 to 1952. The notion of school is widely used by sociologists in accounting for developments within their discipline. However, the use of schools as a …
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Frances R. Donovan and The Chicago School of Sociology: A Case Study in Marginality
… sociological analysis using the life and works of one of its marginal figures, Frances R. Donovan. A "reflexive" approach to the history of sociology turns the early Chicago School's study of "the other" upon itself. Frances Donovan, an English teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, wrote three …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… in opposition” to each other in Anglophone sociology has obscured significant thematic and conceptual connections between them. It employs a genealogical method that focuses on episodic sites of interpretive struggle, but more readily accounts for how mobile material objects like books …
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Human resource development and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Sustained development requires efficient use of resources and equitable distribution of national income. Investment in human capital must be systematically organized in relation to other investments. Specifically, attrition in primary school is high, and the education does not respond sufficiently …
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"Public School Reform in Puerto Rico: Education for an ""orthodox"" Economics"
Throughout Puerto Rico's history under U.S. colonialism, schooling has played a central role in the development of the country. Yet, while Puerto Rico has experienced moments of economic growth under colonialism, the meaning and significance of that growth, in the context of the country's overall …
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
<p>This dissertation is a qualitative study of seven privately-published family histories written by descendants of Mormon polygamists. Using methods of discourse and rhetorical analysis, these texts and various interviews are analyzed with the contention that identity is a rhetorical production …
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The founding of an all Black female seminary: Spelman, 1881-1927
The seminary years of Spelman College beginning April 1881 to August 1927 are covered in this dissertation. The objective was to understand the growth and development of this all black female institution developed by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, two white women northern missionaries. …
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Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962
This is a case study of the history of race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign Urbana from the World War II era to the early 1960s. It tells the story of racial injustice perpetuated within this town-and-gown community and how those who were disconcerted with it struggled, …
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
With the momentum of previous Emperors, Haile Selassie steered Ethiopia on the path to modernization. One of his greatest obstacles was the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), which, being steeped in sixteen centuries of tradition, was accustomed to being the primary hegemonic power. Pierre Bourdieu's …