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

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.

Alternative title
The Philadelpia Negro - the Forgotten Beginnings of Empirical Social Research in the USA
ISSN
1804-0616
Extent
Seite(n): 55-73
Language
Tschechisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology(1)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
USA
empirische Sozialforschung
historische Entwicklung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jeřábek, Hynek
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2013

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-410799
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Jeřábek, Hynek

Time of origin

  • 2013

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