by leemichael | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia was born in 1618 in Heidelberg, Germany. She was the third child of Elisabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James I of England, and the Protestant King Frederick V of Bohemia. Elisabeth was formally tutored in many subjects, including a...
by agshivers | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sexuality in the United States of America is not the same as seen in the 1800s. Today, a large proportion of women in the country begin utilizing a form of contraception at a young age in order to enjoy the pleasures of sex without worrying about having to halt one’s...
by bmiao | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Founder of Bethune-Cookman University and recipient of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s highest honor for promoting education for African Americans, Mary McLeod Bethune is a well-recognized figure in the field of education.[1] She...
by tcjacksonsaitz | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Jane Jacobs was an urban theorist and writer, born in 1916 and died in 2006, who thought about the way that urban organization impacts city life and social issues. One of the most influential figures in pivoting the conversation of urban studies away from the...
by mgbrooks | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hannah Arendt, born in 1906 in a German Empire, was a Holocaust survivor known worldwide for her extensive contributions that extend across the social sciences, from political economy to psychology. As one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth...
by zhang5298 | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Historically, men have dominated most discourses in the fields of science and philosophy. Since then, the exclusion of female perspectives and criticism has created a knowledge gap where half of humanity’s wisdom has been overlooked. Thankfully, this is changing;...
by sunp3286 | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Imagine you are riding a train in a rural stretch of countryside and look out the window. You see a Native American family: a woman, man, and their children standing by the river watching you pass them in the train. But how do you know that they are a family? Perhaps...
by ecroitoru | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Mary Wollstonecraft was born the 27th of April 1759 likely in London, England. Raised in a middle-class family that ran into financial troubles later on, she decided to create a career for herself as an author after the moderate success of her first novel, Mary: A...
by charlottemcf | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
In prestigious academic communities, it can be common to hear complaints against capitalism, over-intellectualism, and the devaluation of labor from capitalist intellectuals who haven’t ever worked in the labor force. While it’s obvious that academic papers will offer...
by jpb782 | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sheila Jasanoff is a foundational figure in the establishment of Science and Technology Studies (STS) from the later half of the twentieth century to present day. According to Jasanoff, STS is the academic discipline that investigates the implications and meanings of...
by peterxbh | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ban Zhao (48–117 CE) was born into a wealthy and educated family. Her background allowed her to create literature about female conduct that would please men in a position of power. Her credibility was made possible by the Ban family’s ties to the imperial...
by lingzhoux | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Born in Butte, Montana, on August 20, 1904, Rose Hum Lee was the first Chinese American and the first woman to head a sociology department at US college, the Roosevelt University. As an urban sociologist, she was the first to conduct extensive research and...
by wtwhelan1 | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
An old, grainy video depicts a group of African American schoolchildren holding hands as they skip in a circle. In the middle of this circle is a young African American boy in a loose white shirt and black pants. Suddenly, the children stop skipping and begin clapping...
by ajaymitra | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (1940-2017) was a psychologist who studied family structures while considering culture as a primary variable. The common belief at the time she did her work was that as non-Western societies urbanize, the family structures will converge towards...
by jayer | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Elinor Claire Ostrom (née Awan) was an American-based Political Scientist and Economist who was born in 1933 and passed away in 2012 at the age of 78. Today, she’s most well remembered for her contributions to the fields of New Institutional Economics and Political...
by joalda | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
“I was in lots of raids before. All the street queens were. The paddy wagon was a regular routine. We used to sit in our little 42nd Street hotel rooms — ‘hot spring hotels,’ they used to call them — and party and get high and think about walking down the street...
by jqlee | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
The settlement movement in America aimed to improve the living conditions of the poor, while allowing more educated individuals to practice social science. It played a central role in the introduction of empirical methods in sociology, and allowed for the study of the...
by ismaelcarreno | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Emily Greene Balch reached several achievements throughout her career as an American pacifist, economist, and sociologist. Born on January 8th, 1867, in Boston, Massachusetts to a prosperous family that was embedded within the supporting party of Abraham Lincoln...
by eugan | Nov 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Of the many figures who contributed to the formation of feminist sociological ideals, few did so with as much consideration, sensitivity, and effect as Marianne Weber. Often cast in the shadow of her husband’s legacy, Weber is largely responsible for the basis of...
by naomischerer | Nov 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Mary Whiton Calkins, born March 30, 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut, was not only the first female president of the American Psychological Association after its foundation in 1892, but her research into dreams, memory, and self-psychology revolutionized this nascent...
