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IN SEARCH OF THE KINGDOM: THE SOCIAL GOSPEL, SETTLEMENT SOCIOLOGY, AND THE SCIENCE OF REFORM IN A MERICA'S PROGRESSIVE ERA
Author(s) -
WILLIAMS JOYCE E.,
MACLEAN VICKY M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.21563
Subject(s) - social gospel , industrialisation , gospel , protestantism , settlement (finance) , sociology , calvinism , social reform , social change , urbanization , protestant work ethic , immigration , economic history , political economy , political science , social science , history , economic growth , capitalism , law , economics , politics , finance , payment , archaeology
This critical narrative history examines the development of sociology in the United States during what has come to be labeled as the Progressive Era, roughly the years from the 1890s to World War I. Despite the label, this era was defined as much by social problems associated with industrialization, urbanization, and immigration as by the growth of its cities and the wealth of its capitalists. We explore the roots of American sociology in the transition of protestant theology from Calvinism to its reformation in the social gospel, the simultaneous development of settlement houses, and the “creation” of sociology as the science of reform.