Franklin H. Giddings can be considered one of the founding fathers of sociology in the United States. With many of his contemporaries, Giddings shared a firm commitment to eugenics, scientific racism, and race-conscious imperialism—a biologically rooted impetus that recent literature has placed at the core of the Progressive Era reform agenda, and which was particularly strong among the most sociologically inclined figures of the period. The aim of this article is to present a discussion of Giddings’s views on race, immigration, eugenics, and American imperialism, and how these views evolved over time. What follows adds to our general understanding of the extent to which racial and eugenic considerations permeated American social thought during the first decades of the last century and how, in the specific case of Giddings, this influence found expression in an inherently ambiguous and often contradictory fashion.

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富兰克林 H. 关于种族和优生学的吉丁斯

富兰克林·H·吉丁斯 (Franklin H. Giddings) 可以被认为是美国社会学的奠基人之一。与他同时代的许多人一样，吉丁斯对优生学、科学种族主义和具有种族意识的帝国主义有着坚定的承诺——这是一种生物学上的推动力，最近的文学作品将其置于进步时代改革议程的核心，并且在大多数人中尤为强烈这一时期社会学倾向的人物。本文的目的是讨论吉丁斯关于种族、移民、优生学和美帝国主义的观点，以及这些观点是如何随着时间的推移而演变的。下面的内容加深了我们对上个世纪头几十年种族和优生学考虑在多大程度上渗透美国社会思想的普遍理解，以及在吉丁斯的具体案例中如何，