W.E.B. Du Bois and the Sociological Imagination

I. The Scientific Study of Society and Social Problems (Robert Wortham)

1. The Study of Society

Reading 1: Sociology Hesitant

Reading 2: The Study of the Negro Problems

2. Research Methods

Reading 3: The Scope of This Study and the Problem

Reading 4: The Twelfth Census and the Negro Problems

II. Social Structure and Social Processes (Robert Wortham)

3. Culture and Socialization

Reading 5: Strivings of the Negro People

Reading 6: The Sorrow Songs

4. Religion and Social Structure

Reading 7: The Function of the Negro Church

Reading 8: The Negro Church in Atlanta

5. Stratification

Reading 9: The Negro Race in the United States of America

Reading 10: Social Classes and Amusements

6. Deviance and Crime

Reading 11: The Causes of Crime and Poverty

Reading 12: The Extent of Negro Crime and Some Conclusions

III. Dimensions of Inequality (Robert Wortham)

7. Family

Reading 13: The Negro American Family and Sexual Morals

Reading 14: The Social Life of Country and City Families

8. Education

Reading 15: High School Education and the Outlook for Negro American Students

Reading 16: The College-Bred Negro American

9. Work

Reading 17: Faults and Accomplishments of Industrial Schools

Reading 18: The Economics of Emancipation and the Occupations of Negroes

10. Income and Poverty

Reading 19: Negro Family Income in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward

Reading 20: The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia

11. Health

Reading 21: The Health of Negroes

Reading 22: Negro American Physicians

12. Race

Reading 23: The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South

Reading 24: Race Friction between Black and White

IV. Social Dynamics (Robert Wortham)

13. Population

Reading 25: Sources of the Negro Population

Reading 26: Mortality among Negro Americans

14. Urban and Rural Life

Reading 27: The Black North in 1901: Boston

Reading 28: The Negro As He Really Is

15. Social Change

Reading 29: The Atlanta Conferences

Reading 30: Resolutions and Conclusions on Crime, Health, Work, Education and Morals

Bibliography of Du Bois' Early Sociological Works (Robert Wortham)

Selected Further Readings on Du Bois' Sociological Legacy (Robert Wortham)