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Protestantiteracyndadded o

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riety.n regardo

ecularization,hristianoests

thehypothesis

hat

diversity

aused ubjecti-

vism nd relativismnd thusweakenedom-

mitment.ne of

hebook's enuine urprises

is hat ifferentiation

nabled rotestantsogrow

withinheir

atural

onstituencies.

inally,ul-

tural onflict,

n

particular

hat

etween

rotes-

tantsndCatholics,romotedpan-Protestant

identityranscending

enominationalines,

giving irth

o the ripartitetructure

freli-

gious ffiliationttributedy ome cholars

o

post-World ar

I

circumstances.

Exploratorynnature,s the uthorrankly

acknowledges,

his

work

nvites urthertudy

and other

nalyses

f thiswealth

f

religious

data.

JacobH. Dorn

Wright

tate

University

Jane

Addams nd the Men of the

Chicago

School,

892-1918. yMary oDeegan. New

Brunswick:ransaction,

988.xv + 352

pp.

$34.95.)

Sociologist

ary o

Deegan argues hat ane

Addams's

deas ndmethods

haped he gen-

das

of

both

he arliest niversity

f

Chicago

male ociologistsnd he

ater Chicago

chool.

The

patriarchical

deology,

olitical onser-

vatism,nd mindless rofessionalism

f men

likeRobert

. Park rushedhat cultural

emi-

nist radition,othe astingetrimentf he

discipline.

lthough

eeganestablishes

hat

womenost

heir

marginallaces

n

Chicago's

sociology

epartmenty 1920,

he claims

ar

too

much orAddams nd

herHullHouse ol-

leagues.

Withoutarefullyonsidering

rogres-

sive ra deas

nd

politics

hat onfined oth

Addams

ndthe Chicago

men

nd

without

specifying

owwe

might

now influence

f

we

aw

t,Deegan

annot

make

ood

her

laims

aboutAddams'smportanceosociology.

After brief iscussion

fAddams's

nap-

preciated

rilliancend theHull House

wom-

en,Deegan

urns o the

writings

nd political

concerns

fmale

Chicago ociologists.

he d-

mirably

elineatesifferencesmong

hemen.

Using

rather

oosemeasuref

nfluence,

ow-

ever,

he

truggles

nsuccessfully

o show

hat

the

men

followed ddams'sntellectual

rail.

ThatW. .

Thomas rotebout

mmigrantsnd

women, hat

harles endersontudied evi-

ance, ndthat arkxaminedhicagoonfirm

for

Deegan

themen's

ebt

to

Addams.

hat

all butPark ad contact ith

arly

wentieth-

century

eform ovements

uggests

oher

hat

themen

haredAddams's ision f

sociology

as a

discipline ied

o the

ommunity

s

well

as to the

cademy. eeganpounces n

letters

or

footnotess evidencef

Addams'snfluence

and seems o

believe hatAddams

iscovered

cities,mmigrants,nd

delinquentss fit

ub-

jects or ociologists.y gnoring othwide-

spread

oncern

bout

uch

problemsnd the

reformoots fProgressive

ra

professions,he

exaggerates

ddams'smpact.

Deegan ontinueser unt or

nfluence

n

chapters

n

ociology'selationship

o he

ub-

lic, o

pragmatism,ndto he

tudy

f

women.

She

dentifiescritical

ragmatism

nd cul-

tural eminismsthe

ornerstonesf

Addams's

thought.

n

a

badly arbled

ccount f

prag-

matism,hedetermineshatAddamsearned

from

ohn ewey ut boosted

is nalysisf

democracy

nd

education

ith

jolt

of

ocial

criticism.

eegan, pparently

naware

f

work

on

nineteenth-century

emale

eformers,

eems

to

regard

culturaleminism

urning

om-

en's raditionalirtuesutwardnto

ommuni-

ties-as Addams'sreation.ome

Chicago

o-

ciologistsoined

reform

fforts,

ut

Deegan

deems

hem

ess brilliant r

radical han

Addams. y

WorldWar ,

academic

rofession-

als ike arkainedontrolverociology,rased

the

ontributions

f

Addamsnd he

men

ym-

pathetic

o

her,

nd shunted omen ociolo-

gists

o

thefield

f

ocialwork.

ociology

ost

a distinctiveemale

radition

f

cooperation,

criticism

f

ruling owers,

nd

community

c-

tivism.

Deegan's lans

o recoverhe

ontributions

of

emale

ociologists

nd

o

tudy

reas f

male

and

female ollaboration

nd

conflictre

wor-

thynes.Buttheyrepoorlyxecutednthis

badly

written

ook.

Referenceso

Senator

.

Luck

Senator layton

.

Lusk)

o

not

nspire

confidence.

oth

Addams

nd

the

Chicago

men

deserve

etter.

Paula

Baker

Universityf

Massachusetts

Amherst

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