Sociology Archives - Page 7 of 8

Dora Mayer

Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.

Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper

African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.

Hilde Himmelweit

German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom

Jessy Mair

Sociologist and London School of Economics School Secretary in the 1930s

Minnie Haskins

Poet, novelist and welfare activist

Edith Abbott

Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.

Beatrice Webb

One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Harriet Martineau

English author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American speaker and writer

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.