Mary Jo Deegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 75537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jo Deegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Deegan |
| SIGNATURE | DEEGAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 22 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Les femmes, la sociologie et l’Association américaine de sociologie (1906-1931)
Pacifism, gender and symbolic interactionism
Symbolic interactionists assume the self and the other create social meaning and society through lifelong conversations of gestures. This process is cooperative and intersubjective between individuals and objective through institutions, community patterns, and symbols. Pacifism emerges from these cooperative goals and various behaviours and strategies such as non-resistance, nonviolence as a spiritual force, and collective actions. As this chapte…
On Art, Labor, and Religion
Chicago was a tumultuous and exciting city in 1889. Immigration, industrialization, urbanization, and politics created a vortex of social change. This lively chaos called out for both celebration and reform, and two women, Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams, responded to this challenge by founding the social settlement Hull-House. Addams has become famous as a Nobel laureate, but Starr remains virtually unknown. On Art, Labor, and Religion Starr's…
Scp>A ddams, J ane (1860–1935)
Jane Addams was a charismatic world leader with an innovative intellectual legacy in sociology. She is one of the most important female sociologists who has ever lived. Her combined thought and practice is called “feminist pragmatism”: an American theory uniting liberal values and a belief in a rational public with a cooperative, nurturing, and liberating model of the self, the other, and the community. Addams's intellectual legacy as a feminist …
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918
Jane Addams is well known for her leadership in urban reform, social settlements, pacifism, social work, and women's suffrage.The men of the Chicago School are well known for their leadership in founding sociology and the study of urban life.What has remained hidden however, is that Jane Addams played a pivotal role in the development of sociology and worked closely with the male faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago…
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement…
The Kindergarten and Play 1
The kindergarten takes its methods and exercises from the child. In the kindergarten he plays—when he gets into the grades he works. The opposition, then, between the methods of kindergarten and public school has been diametrical. The kindergarten has been satisfied to take the child before the school could claim him, before he could be inducted piece-meal into the full-grown man’s activity. The school aims to give to the child the technique of l…
The Problem of Comparative Psychology 1
In physiological psychology the attempt is made to parallel so-called psychical phenomena with physiological processes. This chapter aims to make some allied suggestions with reference to Comparative Psychology. Professor William James refers to the whole nervous system, including the hemispheres, as an organized set of paths. A comparative psychology would result in which the corresponding phenomena would always be present. If comparative psycho…
On the Social Situation in the School 1
This chapter seeks to present the social situation in the school as the subject of a possible scientific study and control. The same situation among primitive people is scientifically studied by the sociologist and folkpsychologist. It has been indicated that language being essentially social in its nature, thinking, with the child, is rendered concrete by taking on the form of conversation. It has been also indicated that this can take place onl…
A Psychological Study of the Use of Stimulants 1
The Sociologist and the Criminologist have done a great deal toward the awakening of popular consciousness to the conditions out of which crime springs. In this chapter the authors begin to understand that education must supply interest in the details of work, if they are to produce the morality which depends upon industry. They recognize what enormous sums are annually expended upon the inadequate suppression of crime and, comparing it with the …
Science in the High School 1
The science in the high school that flourished a generation or two ago is best known to us as “natural history.” It does not seem necessary that the natural history of a modern-school curriculum should embody the mistakes and crudities of an earlier phase of the science. The university influence upon the study of science has not been fortunate. Even its power to introduce definite standards has been attended with grave misfortunes. The study of s…
The Social Character of Instinct 1
The primitive instincts of the human animal are practically all social. It is at best a difficult task to isolate and define human instincts, but whatever group one gathers together is bound to refer to conduct that is determined by the movements of other individuals whose conduct is like our own. Within the field of social consciousness arise gradually objects—social objects, the selves, the author, and the others. The author wish to discuss for…
The Teaching ofScience in college 1
The science courses in the high school are not at the present time popular, nor are the money spent upon them, either in equipment or in teaching force, comparable with their educational importance. The problem of college science is, therefore, very intimately connected with science in the secondary school. If the child were introduced to it in the proper way there the situation, which has just been described, would not exist in the college. He w…
What Social Objects Must Psychology Presuppose? 1
There is a persistent tendency among present-day psychologists to use consciousness as the older rationalistic psychology used the soul. It is as completely separated from the physical body by the doctrine of parallelism as the metaphysical body was separated from the metaphysical soul by their opposite qualities. In spite of much philosophizing, the field which is open to introspection is identified in current psychological practice with conscio…
The Child and His Environment 1
Tracts in the child’s brain develop from undifferentiated nerve cells one after the other. All the essential phases of the ultimate life process are present to the young, so that the connections between the different brain tracts, which represent its different acts may be made and naturally will be made as fast as this is possible. The more we study the growth of the embryo and the infant, the more do we find that the relationship of environment …
Indutrial Education, the Working-Man and the School 1
The education of a workman has always been very close to his trade. The dependence of his training upon his trade is expressed in the word apprenticeship. The school taught the use of language and number. Apprenticeship taught the vocation. The education of the workman has been and has remained divided into two parts, the formal training in the three R’s and the apprenticeship to a trade. These two parts have not been parts of a whole. The appren…
Social Psychology as Counterpart to Physiological Psychology 1
There is the widest divergence among psychologists as to the nature of Social Psychology. This chapter focuses on to the implications for psychology of the positions defended by William McDougall, by Josiah Royce and James Mark Baldwin respectively, if they are consistently maintained. McDougall lists eleven human instincts: flight, repulsion, curiosity, pugnacity, subjection, self-display, the parental instinct, the instinct of reproduction, the…
On Perception and Imitation 1
The problem in animal psychology is to find out in what way consciousness of the consequences of an act may get into the stimulation that leads to the act. The consciousness of relations, which is the essence of reason, is identified, by analysts&s; own introspection, with the feeling of characters and affective states where these have in them the implicit relation. The behavior of animals seems to justify us in ascribing such feelings to their c…
The University and the Elementary Schools 1
The parents’ Association of the University, Elementary, and High Schools may legitimately ask what advantages it gets from the connection between these Schools and the University. In the largest School of Education in the country, those of Columbia University in New York, the secondary and elementary schools are not in as close connection with the University as that which subsists here in Chicago. The University, Elementary, and High Schools are …
The Relation of Play to Education 1
There are three general types of human activity, work, art, and play. In art the control of the activity is not a sharply defined end which governs the selection of the means, but the harmony of the means in their relation to each other. Play distinguishes itself from both work and art in its absolute spontaneity and in its lack of consciousness of an end in view, of the means used to accomplish an end, or finally of the perfection of the movemen…
The University and the School of Education 1
In the two general types of Schools of Education in the country there is evident the same tendency to make closer the work of the School and of the University. These two types are that represented by the Teachers’ College in Columbia University and that to be found in a number of State Universities in the West. There is a steady pressure brought to bear by the School of Education upon the University to introduce members of its faculty into the fa…
Concerning Animal Perception 1
This chapter focuses on to a phase of animal psychology which has received, but inadequate treatment. This inadequacy is evident not only in the general psychologies, but also in special experimental investigations of animal intelligence. The vast importance of the human hand for perception becomes evident when we recognize how it answers to the eye, especially among the distance senses. The development of space perception follow in normal indivi…
The Relation of the Embryological Development to Education 1
The embryonic development gives us some principles to govern the further stage of infancy after birth. The stimulus in education should be found in plenty, not in want, or expressed psychologically in interest, not in distress. Life should always be made to appeal to the child as a rational whole that falls within the scope of his comprehension. A child’s activities should always reflect the intelligent character of human life as a whole. They sh…
Emotion and Instinct 1
In the analysis of the act to find the place of emotion within it, we have the work of Charles Darwin to start with. He has shown that the so-called emotions belong to a number of primitive acts. In the case of anger, however, the emotion arises when conscious direction of the activity of getting food and protection of the self or what belongs to it has ceased. The same thing is true of fear. Fear, as distinguished from a paralyzing terror, is fo…
Essays in Social Psychology
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a central, founding figure of modern sociology, comparable to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Mead's early work, prior to his posthumous publications that appeared after 1932, is believed to be a series of articles contemporary scholarship defines as disconnected. A previously unknown, never published set of galleys for a book of essays by Mead, written between 1892 and 1910, unites these articles into a logical perspe…
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
An American Dream
Dear Love, Dear Love
The history of women in sociology is explored here through the correspondence written by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Marion Talbot in the summer of 1936. Their loving letters reveal the ideas and practices of feminist pragmatism and the female world of love and ritual located in Chicago in the twentieth century. This world of professional women flourished around the social settlement Hull House and the University of Chicago during the founding …
Transcending a Patriarchal Past
The lives and ideas of early female sociologists are rarely documented in textbooks, classrooms, or historical accounts of the profession. This patriarchal legacy is rejected by an increasing number of contemporary sociologists. These more egalitarian professionals soon discover, however, that they have few resources in their sociological stock of knowledge to guide them in this new enterprise. This paper is a guide for teachers in a variety of c…
Doctoral Dissertations as Liminal Journeys of the Self
The sociology dissertation process is a liminal journey, a passage characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in which the student self is abandoned and a new professional self claims a world ofpower.authority, maturity, and responsibility.The theoretical perspectives ofvictor Turner, Arnold Van Gennep, and George H. Mead are extended to conceptualize the "liminal self who undertakes this di@xlt and problematic journey of transformation.…
Erving Goffman
Textbooks, the History of Sociology, and the Sociological Stock of Knowledge
Textbooks increasingly reflect changes in our sociological stock of knowledge about the founders of the discipline. Richard Hamilton is unaware of this research and its documentation of the flaws in earlier accounts of the history of the profession. In an effort to expand his disciplinary understanding, I briefly review the extensive scholarship on the sociology of Harriet Martineau which has been published over the last quarter of a century
Jane Addams, the Hull-House School of Sociology, and Social Justice, 1892 to 1935
Jane Addams is one of the greatest sociologists who has ever lived; yet, her ideas and practices remain a puzzle to many contemporary sociologists. There are many reasons for this confusion, but they are less important than learning what she accomplished and why it is vital to understand her life within the context of a global society. I will outline these major points here
Jane Addams on citizenship in a democracy
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was passionately committed to citizenship: her own and that of her neighbors around the world. As a feminist pragmatist she was inspired by the core American documents of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. Based on her multilevel approach to democracy, she is honored world-wide as a premier citizen, although her support of the citizenship of women and African Americans has been cr…
Goffman on Gender, Sexism, and Feminism
Often known as cynical, contentious, and exhibiting a complicated approach to objectivity, Erving Goffman could also be generous, civil, insightful, open to feminist ideas, and surprisingly political. A 1977 collective feminist writing project led to my conversation with Goffman in 1980 about his ideas on gender, sexism, and feminism. A summary of that conversation is presented, together with my formal reflections then (1980) and now (2013). Whil…
The Controversial Classroom
Ana-Maria Wahl, Eduardo T. Perez, Mary Jo Deegan, Thomas W. Sanchez, Cheryl Applegate, The Controversial Classroom: Institutional Resources and Pedagogical Strategies for a Race Relations Course, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 316-332
An American Dream
Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology 1894–1934
Although Annie Marion MacLean, teacher, sociologist, and leader, gained international fame as an expert on working women's issues, her significant contributions are overlooked by contemporary scholarship. MacLean was extraordinary by any standard her level of education; her precedent-setting behaviors, research, methodological innovations, public impact, and writing; her dedication to women's freedom and social justice; and her love for family an…
The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs
Robert E. Park played a central part in defining sociology as a natural science. He imagined sociologists as unbiased and unaffected by the human behavior they studied. He particularly criticized the work of female sociologists who applied their sociological knowledge with the help of hundreds of thousands of clubwomen. He mocked these clubwomen and their 'do-goodism'. Clara Cahill Park, his wife, was one of these clubwomen who engaged in all the…
The ecofeminist pragmatism of Caroline Bartlett Crane, 1896–1935
The Ecofeminist Pragmatism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Chicago School of Sociology
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. This is …
Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry
Annie Marion MacLean, Feminist Pragmatist and Methodologist
Annie Marion MacLean was a major Chicago sociologist and methodologist. She was profoundly influenced by the gendered division of labor in sociology during her era. MacLean combined her work with the men and women of the early Chicago school of sociology and the women of Hull-House, an early social settlement. As a feminist pragmatist, MacLean was both a theorist and practitioner who used qualitative and quantitative methods. She set precedents i…
American Indian Nations
Women in Sociology
Sociology and Conviviality
Multiple Minority Groups
In general, disfranchised Americans are becoming increasingly aware of their social restrictions and limitations on opportunities. As a result there are now minority groups who have identified their shared problems only within the last twenty years,and these groups are rapidly changing the nature of minority relations. In particular, people with newly defined multiple minority statuses are beginning to articulate their specialized interests and e…
The Non-Verbal Communication of the Physical Handicapped
This paper explores the types of problems which may arise as a function of a physical disability and its effects on non-verbal communication. Examples of social interaction problems were obtained through participant observation at a physical rehabilitation hospital. The author assumes that social skills based on communication through and by the body need to be conceptualized and have implications for their use in therapeutic settings
The Hospital Volunteer
Specialization of medical practice in bureaucratic settings has created a situation where the individual is often treated according to universalistic and impersonal criteria. The hospital volunteer enters this health care system with a radically different expertise and organizational relationship compared to the salaried workers. The mandate of "helping" the patient and vague organizational ties create a problematic but necessary role for this la…
Transformation and Identity
Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry
Comment on Perinbanayagam's "The Significance of 'Others' in the Thought of Alfred Schutz, G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley"
Depression and Physical Rehabilitation
Depression is often expected in our society during physical rehabilitation. This and similar expectations structure the experience of a physical disability. Contradictions in expectations and demands by providers to conform to this paradigm create barriers in the rehabilitation process. Changes in the physical rehabilitation paradigm are briefly suggested
The Non-Verbal Communication of the Physical Handicapped
This paper explores the types of problems which may arise as a function of a physical disability and its effects on non-verbal communication. Examples of social interaction problems were obtained through participant observation at a physical rehabilitation hospital. The author assumes that social skills based on communication through and by the body need to be conceptualized and have implications for their use in therapeutic settings
Comment on Perinbanayagam's “The Significance of ‘Others’ in the Thought of Alfred Schutz, G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley”
(1978). Comment on Perinbanayagam's “The Significance of ‘Others’ in the Thought of Alfred Schutz, G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley”. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 141-145.
American Drama and Ritual
Football is a major sport in the United States because of its dramatic enact ment of social values of violence, bureaucracy, sexism, and commercialism. The spec tators of this game are particularly enthralled in the state of Nebraska. Here, a state with a large geographical area and a small, predominanty rural population, the fans have elevated Nebraska fottball to a significant ritual and source for iden tification. As avid supporters they dress…
Living and Acting in an Altered Body
Adults with recent amputations are often perceived as suffering from post-operative depression and phantom limbs. These states are frequently seen as failures in "adjustment" since there are often few physiological involvements which curtail daily functioning. This perspective is seen as compatible with major American values of pragmatism, individualism, and a mechanistic medical model. We suggest here that problems in daily living and the phanto…
George Herbert mead and social reform
There are two popular myths concerning the eminent philosopher and social psychologist George Herbert Mead: that he published little during his lifetime and that Mind, Self, and Society is his most important sociological work. This misrepresentation of Mead's contributions is partially grounded in the neglect of his work and writings on social reform. The misrepresentation of the significance of the almost seventy articles Mead wrote during his l…
Employment, Theory and Practice in Qualitative Medical Sociology
Applied qualitative medical sociology is almost an unheard of phenomenon. When it is done, however, It is usually accomplished by sociologists employed in academic institutions. Here we discuss the possibility of such a specialty, building upon the established literature and resources, as a potential area of employment and expanded sociology practice. Three "types" of approaches: symbolic interaction, phenomenology and Marxism are used to suggest…
On responsibility in ethnography (comment on Kotarba,QS September, 1979)
Multiple Minority Groups
In general, disfranchised Americans are becoming increasingly aware of their social restrictions and limitations on opportunities. As a result there are now minority groups who have identified their shared problems only within the last twenty years,and these groups are rapidly changing the nature of minority relations. In particular, people with newly defined multiple minority statuses are beginning to articulate their specialized interests and e…
Women and Disability
During the 1970's a social movement arose to address the concerns of people with disabilities. Action groups pressed for reforms in architectural barriers, educational and employment opportunities, deinstitutionalization, and legal protection of civil rights. Although accurate demographic information is lacking, estimates indicate that approximately one in ten Americans has a disability or chronic disease and would be affected by the changes brou…
W. I. Thomas and social reform
W. I. Thomas was a major figure in the founding of sociology, especially symbolic interactionism. His concern with and commitment to social reform, however, is rarely recognized. This neglected aspect of his thought and activities is crucial for the interpretation and assessment of his writings and status in the profession. Examination of this facet of his work also illuminates some of the important contributions made by women to the development …
Women and Disability
The Chicago School of Sociology
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. This is …
Holidays as Multiple Realities
Holidays are idealized as times of celebration. They are embedded in cultural symbols, family patterns, and lived experience. Because all holidays are not good times, however, the lived experience of holidays is considerably more complex than its symbolization. This ambivalence is dramatically deepened for recently disabled adults who view holidays as a specially strained time of remembrance. Past holidays are often idealized in a new way as one'…
Women and Disability
An American Dream
W.E.B. Du Bois and the women of hull-house, 1895–1899
Understanding Deafness Socially
Transcending a Patriarchal Past
The lives and ideas of early female sociologists are rarely documented in textbooks, classrooms, or historical accounts of the profession. This patriarchal legacy is rejected by an increasing number of contemporary sociologists. These more egalitarian professionals soon discover, however, that they have few resources in their sociological stock of knowledge to guide them in this new enterprise. This paper is a guide for teachers in a variety of c…
Sociology and Conviviality
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
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