Lester Frank Ward was a social reformer believed that the best way to help the urban poor was to redeem their should and reform their character.
Lester Frank Ward, an American sociologist and a social reformer who played a key role in establishing sociology as an academic field in the United States, was born on June 18, 1841, in Joliet, Illinois, and passed away on April 18, 1913, in Washington, D.C. Ward was an optimist who promoted a planned, or "telic," society (a "sociocracy") in which nationally controlled education would be the driving force.
A contestant who supports reform is known as a social reformer. A person who disputes; who excels at or enjoys controversy is referred to as a crusader, meliorism, reformer, reformist controversialist, disputant, or eristic. An activist who supports ending slavery is known as an abolitionist or emancipationist.
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