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The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological and epidemiological study of African Americans in Philadelphia that was written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community.
Émile Durkheim's The Division of Labour in Society is published. Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse's The Labour Movement is published. The final volume of Karl Marx's Capital is published (edited by Engels). Georg Simmel's Introduction to the Science of Ethics is published. Wilhelm Windelband's A History of Philosophy is published.
Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.
Albion Small's General Sociology is published. Albion Small's Adam Smith and Modern Sociology is published. H. G. Wells' The So-Called Science of Society is published. Chair of Sociology at the London School of Economics founded, the first in the United Kingdom, and is taken by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse.
The development of social science subfields became very quantitative in methodology. Conversely, the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary nature of scientific inquiry into human behavior and social and environmental factors affecting it made many of the natural sciences interested in some aspects of social science methodology. [2]
In 1984, W. Wilson Goode (b. 1938) became Philadelphia's first black mayor. Goode's administration was followed by black mayors John Street (b. 1943) and Michael Nutter (b. 1957). [49] Many black Philadelphia natives have moved to the suburbs or to Southern cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Birmingham, Memphis, San Antonio and Jackson ...
It was founded in 1873 as a teaching school for newly freed slaves. The school was originally co-ed with 70 men and women learning in the unplastered basement of a church.
Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.