Jane Addams

Examples of Jane Addams in the following topics:

• Middle-Class Reformers

  • At the urging of such prominent social critics as Jane Addams , child labor laws were strengthened and new ones adopted, raising age limits, shortening work hours, restricting night work and requiring school attendance.
  • Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.
  • Addams became a role model for middle class women who volunteered to uplift their communities.

• Introduction

  • Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • In 1892, Addams published her thoughts on what has been described as "the three R's" of the settlement house movement: residence, research, and reform.
  • In combining research with action, Jane Addams and the other members of Hull House illustrate the practice of sociology.

• The Settlement House Movement

  • The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr after they had visited Toynbee Hall in 1888.
  • Addams followed the example of Toynbee Hall, which was founded in 1885 in the East End of London as a center for social reform.
  • A founder of Hull House, Jane Addams (September 6, 1860–May 21, 1935), along with being a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, was also a social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.
  • Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities.

• Maternalist Reform

  • In 1890 Julia Lathrop moved to Chicago, where she joined Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, Alzina Stevens, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alice Hamilton, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other social reformers at Hull House.
  • Jane Addams would begin the maternalism movement in order to improve the health, education, and welfare of American children.
  • Addams wanted to create a new meaning of motherhood by cultural ideology that championed the emotional and social value of women's attachment to children and family.

• Social Justice

  • Jane Addams, of Chicago's Hull House, typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by social workers and volunteers and located in inner-city slums.
  • Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

• Applied and Clinical Sociology

  • Jane Addams is considered by many to be one of the earliest sociologists, though her contributions were mostly to the application of sociology to social work.

• Progressives and the Working Class

  • In 1901, Jane Addams founded the Juvenile Protective Association, a nonprofit agency dedicated to protecting children from abuse.

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  • Maslow studied what he called exemplary people, such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass.

• America's Entry into the War

  • Most of the leaders of the woman's movement, typified by Jane Addams, likewise sought pacifistic solutions.

• The Social Problem

  • Followers of the new Awakening promoted the idea of the Social Gospel ,which gave rise to organizations such as the YMCA, the American branch of the Salvation Army, and settlement houses such as Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.