The history of sociology’s theories is conventionally told as a history of white male agency, these are based on the contributions from the generation of male sociologists.  The claim that a group has been written out of history is different from the claim that  group has been invisible. What it means to be invisible is to be not seen. Being written out suggests that having once been seen as a presence in a community and then having been erased from its record. this happened due to the fact that I believe that women were not treated as equal to the men of sociology. Many of these women knew each other and the work that they had done. Many of them read Gilman’s book Women and Economics. Many of these women all tried to analyze the problem of race. Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and Florence Kelley all were participants in the founding of the NAACP. These women knew that they were part of of larger movement, and history, to create a type of science of society and believed that they had their own sense of what that science is or should be. Women due vary in their opinions with many different sociological issues, but they do all agree that their intellect on sociology and their perspective was just as good as the men’s were. The only difference was that in the retelling of sociology, magically the women just disappeared.

By Jeffrey V