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Addams, Jane
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From: A Dictionary of Sociology
Date: 19980101
Author:GORDON MARSHALL
Addams, Jane
(1860–1935) Addams was an American sociologist of central importance to the work of the Chicago School in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A powerful influence on many other women in sociology, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emily Greene Balch , in 1889 she set up a social settlement in Chicago, Hull House, which was partly inspired by London's Toynbee Hall, but was more woman-influenced, more egalitarian, and less religious. She argued that one of the main problems for women was trying to manage the conflicting demands of family and ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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