Albion Woodbury Small

Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926) was an American sociologist who founded the University of Chicago’s sociology department and helped establish sociology as an academic discipline in the United States.

William Rainey Harper: An American biblical scholar and educator who became the University of Chicago’s first president. Harper recruited Small to lead sociology at the new University of Chicago.
Sociology: The systematic study of social relationships, institutions, and collective life. Small worked to establish this field as a university discipline.
General Sociology: Albion W. Small’s 1905 book presenting a systematic framework for studying social processes and interests. The book set out Small’s mature account of sociology’s subject and method.
Chicago School of Sociology: A tradition of sociological research associated with the University of Chicago, especially its early twentieth-century scholars. Small’s department created the institutional setting from which this tradition developed.
George Edgar Vincent: An American sociologist and university administrator who coauthored an influential introductory sociology textbook with Small. Vincent collaborated with Small on teaching and textbook writing.
University of Chicago Department of Sociology: An academic department founded in 1892 as one of the first sociology departments in the United States. This was the central institution Small founded and led.
An Introduction to the Study of Society: An 1894 textbook on sociology by Albion W. Small and George E. Vincent. Small and Vincent used this textbook to organize sociology for classroom instruction.
Professionalization: The process by which an occupation develops specialized training, standards, organizations, and recognized expertise. Small’s journal and association leadership helped professionalize American sociology.
Franklin Henry Giddings: An American sociologist who developed theories of social evolution and founded Columbia University’s sociology department. Giddings helped establish sociology alongside Small, from a different institutional center.
Social Darwinism: A family of theories applying evolutionary ideas to social organization and human societies. Evolutionary thinking formed part of the intellectual context Small sought to systematize.

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