Annie Marion MacLean (1869 to 1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, sometimes called the mother of contemporary ethnography, though scholars dispute the title and point to earlier ethnographic work by Harriet Martineau. Born in St. Peters Bay, Prince Edward Island, and raised in Nova Scotia, she studied at Acadia University and then at the University of Chicago, where she was the first woman to take a master's degree in sociology (1897) and the second to take a doctorate (1900). Excluded as a woman from regular sociology posts, she taught at Royal Victoria College, Stetson University and Adelphi College, and for most of her career ran correspondence courses for the University of Chicago's Home Study Department. She is remembered for participant observation and social surveys applied to the conditions of working and immigrant women, notably a 1907 to 1908 study of 135,000 women workers that led to Wage-Earning Women (1910). She died in Pasadena, California, in 1934.
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Annie Marion MacLean (1869 – 1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography".
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Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography".
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She is particularly known for her studies of working and immigrant women.
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MacLean was a highly sophisticated methodologist, using a pragmatic blend of methods to address the specific practical questions at hand.
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Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography".
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Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934) was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography".
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founding scholars of sociology such as Albion Small, Charles Henderson, and George Herbert Mead
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founding scholars of sociology such as Albion Small, Charles Henderson, and George Herbert Mead
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MacLean was the first woman to receive a master's degree in sociology (in 1897), and the second to receive a Ph.D. (in 1900), both from the University of Chicago.
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