{"id":1124,"date":"2007-11-17T10:41:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2007-11-17T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:41:39","slug":"chicago-and-social-movements-blogging-a-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Chicago and social movements: blogging a conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I am at the Social Science History Association<\/a>, and the current session on Chicago and social-science research is one of the sessions that combine a national academic conference with a local context. After all, we’re meeting in Chicago this weekend.<\/p>\n

The first paper by Victoria Brown was about Jane Addams and is part of a biographical project beyond this paper. I came late, so I won’t summarize it. Laura Westhoff’s paper is about Myles Horton’s education in Chicago. The idea of Horton being educated in part in the Park School of Sociology is … fascinating. I am not sure what I think of it, except that we need to rethink both Horton and Park as a result. Is this democratic social knowledge? How much was Horton using his education or mapping it onto preexisting ideas… And how much did Park promote a particular view of a functioning society or educate students who then could go do what they wanted, later? Hmmn…<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I’ve had two cups of coffee, something I don’t usually have in the morning. So I’ve had listening-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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