Frances Kellor

Frances Alice Kellor (* October 20, 1873; † January 4, 1952 ) was an American sociologist and social reformer.

Biography

Frances Kellor grew up in Columbus, Ohio and later in Michigan in poor circumstances, her mother was a single parent.

She studied at the University of Chicago. Here they dealt with the sociology of crime, in particular with the works of Cesare Lombroso. Her research contradicted the thesis of Lombroso that hereditary predisposition is often the cause of crime, and suggested that crime was due to environmental conditions.

Writings

  • Experimental Sociology: Descriptive and Analytical (1901 )
  • Out of Work ( 1904), with Gertrude Dudley
  • Athletic Games in the Education of Women (1909 )
  • Notaries Public and Immigrants (1909 )
  • Straight America: A Call to National Service ( 1916)
  • Immigration and the Future (1920 )
  • The Federal Administration and the Alien ( 1921)

Article

  • " Arbitration and the Legal Profession" ( undated )
  • "Sex and Crime" in International Journal of Ethics ( October 1898)
  • " Immigration and Household Labor" in Charities (1904 )
  • "Where Slave Girls are Sold" in The New York Herald ( February 14, 1904)
  • " Emigration From the South - The Women " in Charities ( October 1905)
  • " The Immigrant Woman" in The Atlantic Monthly ( September 1907 )
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