Lester Frank Ward
Lester Frank Ward (June 18, 1841 – April 18, 1913) was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association. His 1883 work ''Dynamic Sociology'' was influential in establishing sociology as a distinct field in the United States.In service of democratic development, polymath Lester Ward was the original American leader promoting the introduction of sociology courses into American higher education. His Enlightenment belief that institution-building could be scientifically informed was attractive to democratic intellectuals during the Progressive Era. Ward's version of social science was based in organicist Enlightenment theories of comparative knowledge for democratic development, as distinguished from the mechanist version of science associated with Spencer's version of Sociology, and which later came to dominate the Anglo-American sciences and, along with micro symbolic interactionism and ethnography, sociology in the Cold War. Ward's significance is in deploying his scientific literacy, including his grasp of geological and biological sciences, to found American Sociology in an historical-materialist paradigm that avoided Cartesian dualism and efficiently distinguished democratic-developmentalist social institutions. Ward's influence in certain circles (see: the Social Gospel) was also affected by his Enlightenment views regarding organized priesthoods, which he believed had been responsible for more evil than good throughout human history.
In the democratic Enlightenment tradition, Ward emphasized the importance of macro social forces which could be guided by the cultivation and use of democratic knowledge, in order to achieve progress toward democratic human development, justice, and security, rather than allowing "evolution"--understood as institionalized, mystified social power--to "take its own course," as proposed by elitists William Graham Sumner and Herbert Spencer. Like other sociological Enlightenment thinkers including Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey, Ward emphasized universal and comprehensive public schooling to provide the public with the knowledge a democracy needs to successfully govern itself.
A collection of Ward's writings and photographs is maintained by the Special Collections Research Center of the George Washington University. The collection includes articles, diaries, correspondence, and a scrapbook. GWU's Special Collections Research Center is located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, 1883
New York, 1883
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Washington, D. C. : Press of the Gedney & Roberts, 1891
Washington, D. C. : Press of the Gedney & Roberts, 1891
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York : D. Appleton and company, 1911
New York : D. Appleton and company, 1911
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1881
Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1881
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1887
Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1887
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1907
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1907
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Washington : Govt. Print. Office, 1900
Washington : Govt. Print. Office, 1900
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York Arno Press, 1974
New York Arno Press, 1974
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1894
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1894
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York : The Macmillan company, 1899
New York : The Macmillan company, 1899
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Washington, D. C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1905
Washington, D. C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1905
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & company 1906
Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & company 1906
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970
New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1913
New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1913
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
Boston : Ginn & Co., 1893
Boston : Ginn & Co., 1893
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, London, The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd., 1921
New York, London, The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd., 1921
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by Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913
New York, London, The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd., 1919
2d ed.
New York, London, The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd., 1919
2d ed.
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