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Jan 11, 2006 23:32

The first universities we found were the MU University, which was founded litle over a hundred years ago in 1900. The Sociology Department as MU was founded by the MU President Richard Jesse and apponited Charles Elwood to be the first chairmen of the department.

The second University is the University of San Diego, California. For many years Sociology was considered a "Behavior Science" and was part of the Department of Anthropology and Psychology. In the 1990 the Department of Anthropology separated into the Department of Sociology.

Acontemporary University we found was the University of Wisconsin.

St. Clair Drake was an African American Sociologist. Drake was born in 1911 in Suffolk, Virinia. He attended the University of Chicago and co-authored with Horace Cayton on the "Black Metropolis" in 1954, which was about the study of race and urban life. Drake became the first African American member to attend at Roosevelt University where he taught for 23 years, before in died in 1990.

Harriet Martineau became known as the "founding mother" of Sociology. Harriet was born in 1802. She viewed Sociology to be what is called "social life in society", which is the patterns, causes, consequences, and problems of the social world. According to Harriet, the most importan lawof sociallife is human happiness, which she spent most of her work studying and understanding of the extent of the developing of individuals "morals and manners". She was overwhelmed with the concern with gender, racial, and class inequality.

A Contemporary Sociologist was Thomas Kuhn. Thomas was born on July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1949 and remained there as an assistant professor of general education and history of science. In 1956, Kuhn accepted a post at the University of California Berkeley, where in 1961 he became a full professor of history of science.

One of the Sociology organizations I found was the ISA, the Internation Sociology Association. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the UNESCO. The goal of the ISA, is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world. Its members come from 109 countries.
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