dubois as a founding father
NAME : Ruel Higgins
FACAULTY : Social Science
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER : 620057485
TUTORIAL ROOM : Social Science Faculty Office Seminar Room 6 TIME : 4:00 P.M Wednesdays
TUTOR’S NAME :
ESSAY QUESTION : W.E.B. Du Bois is the “big man” in sociology. Make the case for Du Bois as a founding father of the discipline.
DATE OF SUBMISSION : November 15, 2013 W.E.B. Du Bois is the “big man” in sociology. Make the case for Du Bois as a founding father of the discipline.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois? I know most person who are at the High school level studying sociology has no ide3a who this person is. Students are normally introduced to W. E. B Du Bois at the university level. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington Massachusetts U.S (Lewis biography 1993). His grandfather was a black slave who gained his freedom as a Revolutionary soldier. Du Bois was raised in a middle class neighborhood and did not experience much racial discrimination compared to his black counterparts living in the Southern parts of the U. S. Du Bois was a very educated individual. He attended the Fisk University, and Harvard University. He is the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. During Du Bois time, racism and white supremacy were very prevalent. The Slavery Abolition Act was just past a mere 35 years before he was born. Although Du Bois grew up in a middle class neighborhood, he saw his fellow black men and the way they were being treated. This motivated him in doing some empirical research because research being done at that time by other sociologist didn’t include black in there research. During Du Bois’ time, the discipline Sociology was on the rise. It was also trying to win its place as a science. So sociologists were trying to prove that Sociology was a science by doing similar things that the pure science subjects would do. These similar things would be doing experiment, observation, gathering
FACAULTY : Social Science
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER : 620057485
TUTORIAL ROOM : Social Science Faculty Office Seminar Room 6 TIME : 4:00 P.M Wednesdays
TUTOR’S NAME :
ESSAY QUESTION : W.E.B. Du Bois is the “big man” in sociology. Make the case for Du Bois as a founding father of the discipline.
DATE OF SUBMISSION : November 15, 2013 W.E.B. Du Bois is the “big man” in sociology. Make the case for Du Bois as a founding father of the discipline.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois? I know most person who are at the High school level studying sociology has no ide3a who this person is. Students are normally introduced to W. E. B Du Bois at the university level. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington Massachusetts U.S (Lewis biography 1993). His grandfather was a black slave who gained his freedom as a Revolutionary soldier. Du Bois was raised in a middle class neighborhood and did not experience much racial discrimination compared to his black counterparts living in the Southern parts of the U. S. Du Bois was a very educated individual. He attended the Fisk University, and Harvard University. He is the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. During Du Bois time, racism and white supremacy were very prevalent. The Slavery Abolition Act was just past a mere 35 years before he was born. Although Du Bois grew up in a middle class neighborhood, he saw his fellow black men and the way they were being treated. This motivated him in doing some empirical research because research being done at that time by other sociologist didn’t include black in there research. During Du Bois’ time, the discipline Sociology was on the rise. It was also trying to win its place as a science. So sociologists were trying to prove that Sociology was a science by doing similar things that the pure science subjects would do. These similar things would be doing experiment, observation, gathering