Helena Lopata was a renewed researcher on the lives of women. A graduate of the sociology department at the University of Chicago in 1954, Helena writes about her student days where she studied with Herbert Blumer and Louis Wirth. The stories she tells shows some of the themes that have characterized the Chicago School of Sociology for about 100 years. This includes her concern for fairness as the Nazis took over German and tried to take over all of Europe and the advice that Wirth gave her, which was if she is going to study Polish people for her dissertation research, she ought to go to Polonia. She did. Lopata was a wonderfully generous and brilliant woman who tells stories with wit and clarity. Helena wrote this article for Qualitative Family Research, 6(1), published in May 1992.
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Helena Znaniecka Lopata Writes on Her Time at the University of Chicago
Helena Lopata was a renewed researcher on the lives of women. A graduate of the sociology department at the University of Chicago in 1954, Helena writes about her student days where she studied with Herbert Blumer and Louis Wirth. The stories she tells shows some of the themes that have characterized the Chicago School of Sociology for about 100 years. This includes her concern for fairness as the Nazis took over German and tried to take over all of Europe and the advice that Wirth gave her, which was if she is going to study Polish people for her dissertation research, she ought to go to Polonia. She did. Lopata was a wonderfully generous and brilliant woman who tells stories with wit and clarity. Helena wrote this article for Qualitative Family Research, 6(1), published in May 1992.
Helena Lopata was a renewed researcher on the lives of women. A graduate of the sociology department at the University of Chicago in 1954, Helena writes about her student days where she studied with Herbert Blumer and Louis Wirth. The stories she tells shows some of the themes that have characterized the Chicago School of Sociology for about 100 years. This includes her concern for fairness as the Nazis took over German and tried to take over all of Europe and the advice that Wirth gave her, which was if she is going to study Polish people for her dissertation research, she ought to go to Polonia. She did. Lopata was a wonderfully generous and brilliant woman who tells stories with wit and clarity. Helena wrote this article for Qualitative Family Research, 6(1), published in May 1992.