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 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 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 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 Parysa | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
~ By Parysa Mostajir ~ When scholars discuss the pragmatist theory of democracy, Jane Addams is not usually the first name to arise. More often, writers turn to the works of her close friend and intellectual kindred, John Dewey, such as his 1916 work, Democracy and...
