Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0027 short lesson, about 20 seconds
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The idea
W. E. B. Du Bois pioneered rigorous empirical sociology in the United States, using interviews and statistics to document a community's real conditions.
In practice
The Philadelphia Negro (1899) drew on hundreds of interviews and produced evidence contradicting the racial explanations of his day.
Where people slip
His work is data-driven fieldwork, not commentary — the evidence is the argument.
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