Sociology Understanding and Changing the Social World

• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing [2016]
• Series: Open textbook library.
• Subjects: Social sciences > Textbooks; Sociology > Textbooks
• Online Access: Access online version

The founders of sociology in the United States wanted to make a difference. A central aim of the sociologists of the Chicago school was to use sociological knowledge to achieve social reform. A related aim of sociologists like Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett and others since was...