Significant Founding Ideas in U.S Sociology The first schools to incorporate sociology was the University of Chicago (1892), University of Kansas (1889) and Atlanta University (1897)
Robert Ezra Park (1864-1944) Was in the department at Chicago school, Pioneered urban sociology
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) devolved radical ideas of acceptance in communities. was African American so he had a hard time in the world. Sought to expose racism in the US. Came up with double consciences, an awareness of themselves and blacks and how blacks are never free of racial stigmata.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Studied how women get shut away leading to divorce. Her work looks at sex roles and how there should be none
Robert K Merton (1910-2003) Columbia University, helped further the study sociology as a scientific discipline. Was called the middle range, Midway theory from Weber, Marx and Durkheim
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) Columbia University, known for sociological imagination which seeks the nexus between public and private troubles.