Student Name: Shenelle Jordan Student ID: 71819 Course Number: SPST2002 Course: Introduction To Sociology

Student Name: Shenelle Jordan
Student ID: 71819

Course Number: SPST2002
Course: Introduction to Sociology
Caribbean Pioneers of Sociology
Michael Garfield Smith (18 August 1921 - 5 January 1993) was a Jamaican social
anthropologist and poet of international repute.
Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 October 29, 1959) was the first female electrical
engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas
at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis
of A-C Power Systems
Lloyd Brawaithe sociologist and University Principal Lloyd Ewen Braithwaite was born
in Belmont, Trinidad on July 16, 1919.
Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-born American historical and
cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as
well as the sociology of development. His book Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the
Making of Western Culture (1991), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Christine Barrow
Christine Barrow is Professor of Social Development, and has worked with the University of the
West Indies, Cave Hill Campus since 1970. Prof. Barrow was attached to the Department of
Government, Sociology and Social Work, which she headed from 1990 to 1993 and 1996 to
1999. She also was Coordinator for the Women and Development Studies Group from 1987 to
1988. She was appointed Deputy Principal in August 2002.
Nasser Mustapha
Dr. Nasser Mustapha is currently the Head of Behavioural Sciences Department, The University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Consulting Editor for the Encyclopedia of
Caribbean Religions, (a York University Project). Author of two widely used textbooks on
Sociology for Caribbean Students. He has served as Member of the Subject Panel and as Chief
Examiner for CAPE Sociology since its inception and has published several journal articles on
drug abuse, education and stratification, and the sociology of health.
Ralston Milton "Rex" Nettleford,
OM (Jamaica), FIJ,OCC (3 February 1933 - 2 February 2010),was a Jamaican scholar, social
critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI),
the leading research university in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Dr. Susan Craig-James
Born in Trinidad and raised in Tobago, Dr Craig-James holds an MA, Sociology and Politics,
from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of London. She
served as a member of the academic staff at UWI, St Augustine, from 1971 to 1993. In 1998 she
founded Cornerstone Press Limited.
Rhoda Reddock
Professor Reddock, former Head of the Center for Gender and Development Studies, was
appointed Deputy Principal of St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in
August 2008. In March 2002, she was awarded the 7th Triennial CARICOM Award for women in
2000. She has served as consultant for a number of international agencies, including the United
Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Her main areas of interest are womens
labour; gender and history; and the intersectionality of race, class and gender.
Henry Paget
Henrys areas of research are economic and political problems of the Caribbean. He also work on
a number of specific Caribbean thinkers and on a number of critical theorists. Currently, hes
doing some research on the role of culture and the process of development in both the Caribbean
and Africa. Henry also teaches courses on development, the Caribbean, political sociology and
on Colonial Cultures. His most recent publication is C. L. R. James' Caribbean.
Elsa Goveia
Professor Elsa Vesta Goveia was born in 1925, in what was then British Guiana. She gained her
PhD in history at the University College London. She joined the staff of the then University
College of the West Indies in 1950 as Lecturer in the Department of History. In 1961, she was
appointed Professor of West Indian History. She was a brilliant lecturer and outstanding scholar,
she was the author of seminal works on West Indian history the major ones being: A study of the
Historiography of the British West Indies. (American Institute of Geography and History), 1956
and Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands. (Yale University Press), 1965 She died in1980.
George Beckford
George Beckford left the Caribbean region, and the underdeveloped world in general, an
extraordinary body of work that spanned his career as economics professor, advisor to
governments, and consultant to international organizations. "George Beckford's work is
characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision .His purpose was to reveal the
legacy of dispossession originating in the slave plantation experience of African people in the
New World; to 'free the mind' from the internalization of attitudes of inferiority and 'Afro-Saxon'
mimicry. His vision was the affirmation of the culture of 'overcoming' rooted in the Caribbean
'peasantry' and the land".
Derek Godon
Dr. Derek Gordon was a renowned Sociologist, responsible, along with many other
contemporary minds, for developing Sociology in the Caribbean through his many legendary
works. He was a student (between the years of 1964 and 1967) and, later, a Lecturer at the
University of the West Indies in the department of Sociology and is responsible for literary works
such as Class, Status and Mobility in Jamaica and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of the
National Mobility Survey. The Derek Gordon conference, which annually occurs at the
University of the West Indies, is named in the honour of this late veteran sociologist, who in
1973, returned there to lecture, having completed his doctoral studies at the University of
Chicago. His area of focus when it came to research included the labour force, social
stratification and mobility, poverty and urbanisation. Gordon is also best remembered for his
study of class, status and social mobility in Jamaica.
Angel Quintero River

Dr. Quintero Rivera is currently the Director of the Social Research Center of the University of
Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, which is the most prominent research institution in the social
sciences in the country. His distinguished career began in the 1970s when he was founder of the
study of Puerto Rican reality (Centro de Estudios de La Realidad Puertorriquea-CEREP) that
was key in changing Puerto Rican historiography and social research to take a shift towards a
historical sociology based on social-cultural history and political economy. Since the 1980s the
main focus of his research has been historically grounded and theoretically informed analysis of
popular culture in the Hispanophone Caribbean and Latin America. In this vein, his book Salsa,
Sabor y Control: Sociologa de la Msica Tropical, won several awards including best book in
Spanish by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the Casa de las Americas prize.
His most recent book Cuerpo y Cultura: las Msicas Mulatas y la Subversin del Baile, pursues
and developed this line of investigation of Caribbean and Latin American popular culture,
developing a theory of cultural production by means of historical and empirical analysis of dance
practices and performances. Professor Angel Quintero Rivera is a prolific and versatile scholar
who writes about different domain of cultural creation (music, dance, art, religion), framing his
research in historical perspective while developing original theoretical analysis.

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