• moral significance of diversity

• morality must be seen as SOCIAL rather than INDIVIDUAL
• must work daily to root out prejudices 

1. social activist
2. Progressive reformer
3. author of many books of social crticism

Why was she interested in the poor? Influence?

What did she pursue and couldn't finish because?

• long interested because of Dickens
• Mother was influential
• Medical school/medical problems

• Hull House

• Residence, Research, and Reform

• At the time America's best known SETTLEMENT house

• Used to PRODUCE CHANGE within the system.

• Principle--> to keep families safe & to improve societal conditions

• To TEACH by example
• To PRACTICE cooperation
• to PRACTICE social democracy (that is egalitarian OR democractic social relations across class lines)

• Pragmatist 
• agreed w/ feminists BUT didn't want to be labeled

• Civil War
• Universities (Land grant universities & Expansion of universities due to knowledge of society)
• Turn of the 20th century (women's suffrage & women's right to vote 1920)

• Upper middle class family
• Sociology (first department)
• Mother died young. Close to father.
• Changed from homemaking --> medical
• Went to Europe on father's inheritance (saw the poor here)
• First American women to win Nobel Peace Prize

• Became a Christian

• Became interested in the settlement house movement started @ Toynbee Hall ----> Run entirely by college men

• Literally large houses in POOR areas that serve as places for MIDDLE class "RESIDENTS" to live and serve LOCAL POOR!

• Workers are RESIDENTS not the poor

• Very populary in the 19th/20th century. Not so much now. 

• local community approach

• Locally based & Ran by women!

Why did she do this, instead of becoming an academic? Who is she like?

·      She has the financial ability to do this because inheritance

·      And the morals because she just became Christian

·      She is like de Tocqueville

o   Depression hit near the end of this era

o   Ran out of funding (including all the charity programs)

o   Just ended because of “natural disaster”

Focus during this era?

Increased in what theory?

Caused people to?

What 4 things?

*Focus on “science” and the “one best way” to cure societal ills (poverty, mental illness, moral failure)

o   Increased in positivistic theory and people trying to help and trying to do things

o   Education, Prohibition, Eugenics, Positivism

·      Positivism, Eugenics flourished!

o   Hitler took the ideas of eugenics from this

o   Eugenics used on minorities

• Helping the poor because they're WRONG!

• Wealthy women
• through....charity

Charles Hules

·      the millionaire who originally built house

·      In an area of Chicago that was overwhelmingly immigrant Italians but became more racially mixed over time (always poor though)

In POOR area of Chicago  (lots of immigrants (italians...became racially mixed over time)

• Women from wealthy families
• Same class
• SYNERGY!

·      Classes on hygiene, academic subjects, child care, sewing, etc.

o   The wealthy white women are imposing their view on HOW to do this

o   A lot more dogmatic “my way is the best way” 

• wealthy donors 

• residence, reform, research
  
  

  ·      She gave it a third step!-->REFORM
   

  ·      She actually did something with her research (WENT OUT AND DID SOMETHING!)

• teaching poor to rely on the wealthy

• Narrative form!
  
  

  ·      she told stories about the poor people she worked with and used their stories to create theory. 

o   Implicitly built on micro-interactionism

o   Trying to raise money so she is speaking to not just academics but she has to be persuasive to get MONEY from DONORS-----à

o  

Tailor stories to who their audience 

• She is tailoring to her audience to get donations

What is her approach with her theory?

What does this mean?

What were other theorists approach? Exeptions?

• bottom-up approach: Comes from the data she has personally collected.
• Other theorists: Top-down (exception with de Tocqueville

AUDIENCE!

• Addams is not an academic. She publishes and writes to get attention and money for Hull House
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• o   She might present the poor as “virtuous” in order to raise sympathy ( and $)

  
  

  o   She might change what she says dependent on the audience that day

  
  

  o   She might focus on women’s rights more (given her gender and the suffrage movement)

1. Social Ethic
2. Sociology as Social Work
3. Women must be listened to and included in social theory
   
   SSW 

• that it's a DUTY not only to hurt eachother but to POSTIVELY help each other ("injury to one is an injury to all")
• Putting the golden role in SOCIOLOGICAL terms

Addams was the first person who said that sociologists should leave the ivory tower and actually go out and help people.

• That's it's just social work (sociologists tend not to want to associate with this)
  
  & University of Chicago

• Yes but socios don't want to assc/ with social workers
• Closed & condemned