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...
