SOCIOL 3488 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pitirim Sorokin, William Graham Sumner
9 Sep 2016
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Post civil war, industrialization, rise modern university, protestant drive to solve social problems (with science), positivism and scientism. European influence = spencer (wrote in english), comte, simmel and only later durkheim, weber and marx. Spencer out of favor by 1930s (social darwinist laissez-faire ideas did not fare well after wwi, great depression) Early theorists: william graham sumner (1840 1910) Influenced by spencer"s social darwinism, survival of the fittest, against gov. help to those who fail : lester f. ward (1841 1913) First president of ass (american sociological society), for social reform (not social darwinism: thorstein veblen (1857 1929) Owners who focus on profits vs. skilled workers who operated system and focused on general welfare. Theory of the leisure class critiquing business people who engage in conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption. Defines class by consumption (not production like marx) Soc 3488: albion small (1854 1926) Founded sociology department, collaborated first sociology textbook, founded ass, founded american journal of sociology: w. i.
