Download e-book for iPad: Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology, by Mary Jo Deegan

even though Annie Marion MacLean, instructor, sociologist, and chief, won foreign repute as a professional on operating women's concerns, her major contributions are ignored by means of modern scholarship. MacLean was once notable by way of any standard?her point of schooling; her precedent-setting behaviors, examine, methodological options, public influence, and writing; her commitment to women's freedom and social justice; and her love for kinfolk and friends.MacLean used to be a energetic and artistic exponent of the forceful spirit of Chicago sociologists. As a graduate of the dept of sociology on the college of Chicago, MacLean turned one of many founders of the self-discipline. MacLean used to be an best friend and buddy to different sociologists in Chicago who have been either scholars and college on the college and at one other world-class establishment, the social payment Hull-House. She won reputation as a professional on operating ladies, utilizing rules to extend their ideas and reply to their want for social justice.Mary Jo Deegan records the existence, accomplishments, and works of this famous student. Deegan explores such issues as Annie Marion MacLean and sociology on the college of Chicago and Jane Addams' Hull-House, MacLean and feminist pragmatism, ladies and the sociology of labor and occupations, women's exertions unions and the feminist pragmatist welfare nation, the sociology of immigration and race family, and MacLean's legacy to sociology and society. Her inspiring tale might be of curiosity to these exploring the roots of the self-discipline of sociology.