Women in Chicago School Sociology: An Analysis of Monographs written by Women

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: Sakai Chie 関西大学, 社会学部, 教授 (30510680)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: ジェンダー / 社会学史 / 雇用 / シカゴ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to clarify how the Chicago School of Sociology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries described social issues through women's actions and deviance and to uncover the importance of research in which women themselves analyze and describe society, by reexamining the study conducted by the University of Chicago Sociology Department from a gender perspective This project also aims to rethink the case of the Chicago School of Sociology from a gender perspective. In addition, through the Chicago School of Sociology case study, we investigated and analyzed women's work and conflicts in contemporary Japan. Through these studies, it became clear that women have been actively describing and analyzing society and social issues, not only as objects of sociological investigation.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

社会学史が男性による調査研究や議論を中心に組み立てられる傾向が強い中、女性による研究や社会活動に注目することで、20世紀初頭の社会学の中で、女性が活発な役割を果たしたことが明らかになった。また、女性の雇用や社会活動が果たした役割を、女性の研究者による学術研究や社会実践には、新たな視点からの社会貢献の可能性があることを、当時の資料や現在の先行研究を通して示すことができた。