Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Albion Woodbury Small
Born: May 11, 1854
Died: February 12, 1926 (aged 71)
Bio: Albion Woodbury Small founded the first Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.
Known for:
- An introduction to the study of society (1894)
- The meaning of social science (1910)