Empiricism, Pragmatism, and the Settlement Movement
The Pluralist 5 (3) (2011)
| Abstract | This article examines the so-called settlement movement (a social reform movement in the United States and elsewhere during the Progressive Era, roughly 1890-1920) in order to illustrate what pragmatism is and what it is not. In 1906, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch proposed an analysis of settlement house methods as part of an explanation of what the settlement movement was and how a settlement house functioned in its respective neighborhood. Because of her emphasis on interpretation and action, and because of the very nature of the settlement movement as a concrete social reform effort with vitally important consequences for anyone directly or indirectly involved, it might be thought that her analysis would be .. | |||||||||
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