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• Title:
  Jane Addams and the Lost Paradigm of Sociology
• Creator:
  Misheva, Vessela
• Contributor:
  Vessela Misheva is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. She has also served as a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sködve, Sweden. She was awarded a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the Bulgaria Academy of Sciences, as well as a Ph.D. in sociology from Uppsala University. Misheva has also specialized in sociology and systems theory at Bielefeld University under the direction of Niklas Luhmann. From 1998 to 2006 she was a Vice-President of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics and Systems Theory at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and served as a President of the Research Committee 36 on Alienation theory and Research at the ISA between 2010 and 2018. Her current research interests include the sociology of peace, the sociology of knowledge, classical sociology, the theory of self-conscious emotions, and the theory of self. Recent publications include Jane Addams and the Spirit of Social Entrepreneurship (co-edited) (2018), “Jane Addams and the Birth of Micro Sociology as a Science and a Social Enterprise” (2018), “Guilt: What’s So Good about Feeling Bad about Yourself” (2018), and “Lost in Vicissitudes of Greatness and Decline: Charles Horton Cooley’s Unique Contribution to Sociology” (2018).;
  Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se
• Description:
  The present work is the beginning of a discussion that again addresses the question of Jane Addams’ sociological heritage. That latter is defined as a puzzle which may finally have a solution in that all of the pieces now appear to have been collected. The approach taken to recovering Addams’ identity as a sociologist involves a historico-sociological exploration of the influences upon the formation of her sociological thought, with a focus on Auguste Comte, the Father of Sociology. The article argues that Addams emulated Comte’s scientific mission and took upon herself the task of continuing his project by following another route to the goal. She is thus Comte’s successor, and even rival, insofar as she sought to establish sociology as a science that may be placed in charge of producing knowledge about social life and has the social mission of finding solutions to social problems that politicians proved incapable of tackling. Addams emerges from the discussion as the creator of a sociological paradigm that was dismissed, dismantled, and then lost in the process of the scientific revolution that took place unnoticed after the end of World War I, when the normal period of the scientific development of sociology in America came to an end. The suppression during the 1920s of the type of sociology that Addams developed and adhered to has left sociology in a state of unresolved identity crisis and arrested scientific development.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.07.02;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Expanding Social Interactionist Horizons: Bridging Disciplines and Approaches; 2;
  15
• Subject:
  Sociological Paradigm;
  Sociological Canon;
  Addams’s Sociological Identity;
  Comte’s Unfinished Project;
  Mechanism of Emulation;
  Symbolic Interactionism
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/29140 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.14
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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