Women Founders of the Social Sciences
Title | Women Founders of the Social Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn McDonald |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0773591850 |
Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Included are Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Catharine Macauley, Florence Nightingale, Madame de Staël and Jane Addams.
France Théoret
Title | France Théoret PDF eBook |
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Pages | 13 |
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The Women Founders
Title | The Women Founders PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Madoo Lengermann |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2006-12-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478609362 |
An essential volume for anyone interested in the history of sociology, the development of sociological theory, or the history of women in the profession, this well-researched, compellingly argued book makes the case for the active and significant presence of women in the creation of sociology and social theory in its founding and classic periods. Further, Lengermann and Niebrugge explain how the women came to be erased from the history of sociology and identify the political and intellectual currents that now make their recovery both possible and important. The volume focuses on 15 women in eight chapters. Each chapter begins with a biographical sketch situating each thinkers ideas in a historical, social, and cultural context. Next, the authors analyze the womans theory, summarizing its underlying assumptions, explicating its major themes, and introducing key vocabulary. The chapter concludes with excerpts from the original texts of the women founders. All the theories discussed in this text share a moral commitment to the idea that sociology should and could work for the alleviation of socially produced human pain. The ethical duty of the sociologist is to seek sound scientific knowledge, to refuse to make the knowledge an end in itself, to speak for the disempowered, to advocate social reform, and to never forget that the appropriate relationship between researcher and subject is one of mutuality.
The Women Founders of Social Science
Title | The Women Founders of Social Science PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn McDonald |
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Pages | 56 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Women social scientists |
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Women in Science
Title | Women in Science PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Watts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134526504 |
The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity. It moves beyond the historical work on women and science by avoiding focusing on individual women scientists.
The Early Origins of the Social Sciences
Title | The Early Origins of the Social Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn McDonald |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780773514089 |
This study traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of 20th century. It discusses the French Enlightenment, British moral philosophy and includes figures from the 19th century such as Marx.
Gender and American Social Science
Title | Gender and American Social Science PDF eBook |
Author | Helene Silverberg |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1998-05-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780691048208 |
In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic - and mostly male - social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation.