'Please don't think of me as a sociologist': Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge and the early Chicago school

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Two primary assumptions about the relationship between the women and men of the Chicago School have emerged over the years which are the women were frustrated sociologists and the women were displaced sociologists. These assumptions are examined through a case study of the life and work of Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge who is among those characterized as a frustrated and displaced sociologist, but her own words to friend, 'Please don't think of me as a sociologist', suggest that this was not always the case.

Illinois, Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.

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Doing the intellectual biography of Talcott Parsons

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The author shares some of her experiences in doing historical work on the career of Talcott Parsons, the greatest American sociologist. She creates an intellectual biography of Talcott Parsons using archival documents at Harvard and focuses on the great impact of Max Weber's thought on Parson's works.

United States, Parsons, Talcott, Viewpoint essay

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Sociologists as characters in twentieth-century novels

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A study on novel, short stories, gay fictions, mysteries and science fiction revealed the existence of sociologists as characters on it. According to the novelists, the sociological characters in the theme is an offer to the readers to get a simple, detached, unemotional observer of human behavior.

Sociology, Works

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