SOCI-232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Multiple Dispatch, Cotton Fields
25 Mar 2019
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Dubois: an african-american sociologist, a multi-method sociologist. Inspired by different theoretical traditions of positivism (seen in durkheim"s work): positivism: close to the spirit of natural science. Relied heavily on quantitative data: embraced the spirit of romanticism of art/culture infused dubois" theory. He studied race, inequality, etc. , and his personal experience shaped his learnings. Color line: that race organizes modern social life. Dedicated to cotton trade/textiles: north union denied the south the right to break away from the states, war was also fought over slavery, reconstruction (1865-1877). Following the american civil war: attempt to integrate the southern states to the union, south lost the war, slavery was abolished. Other structures in place regardless of "change" remained the same. Laws in place difficult for former slaves to own land. African-americans were to work for little pay: kkk: klu klux klan"s leadership between 1877 and 1950, there were over 3,000 recorded lynchings. Attempt to discourage integration of former slaves into american society.
