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This research explores the career development of men who cross over into the historically female occupation of physical therapy, drawing from a critical feminist perspective on sport, work, and the gender order. Data gathered from thirty-two semistructured interviews with early- and mid-career men indicate that a traditional emphasis on athleticism shaped men's career entry and early specialty choices. Men in physical therapy described a "good physical therapist" as displaying both stereotypically masculine and feminine traits. Although athleticism shaped men's abilities to comfortably accept alternative masculinities in the form of caring work, early-career specialty choices reinforced hegemonic patterns of occupational segregation. Implications for gender equality at work are discussed and limitations to feminist perspectives are noted.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: In Search of Sociology -- Problems in Search of Solutions: Science, Religion, and Education in the Progressive Era -- Neighborhood Settlements: Residence, Research and Reform -- Hull House: Feminist Pragmatism and the Chicago Women's School of Sociology -- Back of The Yards: The University of Chicago Settlement -- Chicago Commons: Settlement and Social Gospel in Action -- Boston's South End House: A Sociological Laboratory -- The College Settlements Association: Breaching Gender and Class in Cities -- Henry Street: Where Health Became a Public Issue -- Greenwich House: The House that Mary Built -- Recovering a Paradigm Lost: Public Sociology Then and Now -- Appendix A: Selected Works of the Chicago Women's School of Settlement Sociology -- Appendix B: A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Urban Sociology of South End House and University of Chicago Sociologists -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: in search of sociology -- Problems in search of solutions : science, religion, and education in the -- Progressive era -- Neighborhood settlements : residence, research and reform -- Hull house : feminist pragmatism and the chicago women's school of sociology -- Back of the yards : the university of chicago settlement -- Chicago commons : settlement and social gospel in action -- Boston's south end house : a sociological laboratory -- The college settlements association : breaching gender and class in cities -- Henry street : where health became a public issue -- G greenwich house : the house that mary built -- Recovering a paradigm lost : public sociology then and now -- Appendix a: selected works of the chicago women's school of settlement sociology -- Appendix b: a comparison of some aspects of the urban sociology of south end house and University of Chicago sociologists -- References -- Archival collections -- Other internet resources used -- Index.

Paradigms allow people to understand the world from various viewpoints, target specific audiences, define problems of study and methodological directives, and imply solutions in the real world. This article provides a brief history of theories of race and race relations, noting that racial paradigms in mainstream sociology have rarely been displaced by radically different ones. Until the 1960s, "new" paradigms appeared as repackaged perspectives with the same background assumptions. In this work, the authors juxtapose the viewpoints of social theorists writing from within the accepted (White "malestream") canon against the writings of some who until recently have been excluded from the traditional canon. Reading theories from margin to center allows one to rethink the important features of a Black race paradigm that challenges prevailing theories and their background assumptions. This paradigm is characterized by democratic rhetoric, systematic research, and a call for social reform.