SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, W. E. B. Du Bois
23 Oct 2016
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Member of the chicago school of sociology. Thought of the city as a laboratory. Worked with booker t. washington at the tuskegee institute in alabama. Black american sociologist of race economics, culture. Started one of the first sociology programs in the usa at atlanta university famous work: the souls of black folk (1903) Feminist theory addresses issues of systematic discrimination against women. Strong tradition of political economy: an interdisciplinary approach involving sociology, political science, economics, law, anthropology, and history. Political economy looks at the relationships between politics. Initially politics, sociology and anthropology and were all together. Tom bottomore was the chair, left for sussex 1967. 1972 the department split into 2 separate departments: political science. Internationally renowned amongst his colleagues as one of britain"s best sociologist and had edited acclaimed translation of karl marx"s early writings. The system of methods a researcher uses to gather data on a particular question. Big discipline with researchers taking a variety of approaches.
