Chicago 1904: Sociological Discourses and the Work of Social Reformers

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the enormous social upheavals in Western society caused by the machine age, industrialism, and exploitation by capitalism not only marked the birth of the discipline of sociology, they began concerning protagonists in architecture as well. Within the context of the St. Louis World’s Fair and Chicago’s Hull House, intellectuals across the disciplines were able to exchange their different proposals for solutions, because they understood this challenge as a Western one in general, regardless of their nationality and cultural background.