The Philadelphia Negro - zapomenutý počátek empirické sociologie ve Spojených státech amerických

• Autorzy: Hynek Jeřábek

Warianty tytułu

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The Philadelpia Negro - the Forgotten Beginnings of Empirical Social Research in the USA

• Języki publikacji: CS

Abstrakty

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This paper focuses on "The Philadelphia Negro": a community study that stands at the start of American social research. This somewhat forgotten empirical study from 1899 describes the historical conditions and the economic and social causes and circumstances behind the formation and existence of the "Seventh Ward", a slum neighbourhood in Philadelphia inhabited by African-Americans. The study used survey and other methods of observation and analysis of historical, economic and social data. The study was written by the erudite Harvard University graduate William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, an African-American, and an economist, historian and sociologist. Using primary and secondary literature and archive sources this paper shows that Du Bois was the author of the first empirical social research study in the United States. It looks at his life, his research, and his opinions on racial issues. He created a programme of research on the African-American population and from 1898 to 1910 he headed the first school of sociology on the American continent at the University of Atlanta. He published the results of scientific analyses of the lives of African-Americans in the south of the United States in sixteen volumes of the Atlanta University Studies. Racial prejudices among the American sociological elites prevented both Du Bois and his work from receiving the attention they rightly deserve.

Słowa kluczowe

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W. E. B. Du Bois; Philadelphia Negro; first sociological school; the beginnings of empirical social research

• Wydawca: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, Czech Republic
• Czasopismo: Historická sociologie (Historical Sociology)
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 1
• Strony: 55-73

Twórcy

autor

Hynek Jeřábek

• Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut sociologických studií (Czech republic),