Chicago Sociology / / Jean-Michel Chapoulie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Chapoulie, Jean-Michel,
• MitwirkendeR: Kornblum, William,
• TeilnehmendeR: Kornblum, William.; Wazer, Caroline.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Known for its pioneering studies of urban life, immigration, and criminality using the “city as laboratory,” the so-called Chicago school of sociology has been a dominant presence in American social science since it emerged around the University of Chicago in the early decades of the twentieth centu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Sociological Research in Its Institutional Context
• 1. The Initial Development of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1892–1914
• 2. William Isaac Thomas, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, and the Beginnings of Empirical Academic Sociology
• 3. Park, Burgess, Faris, and Sociology at Chicago, 1914–1933
• 4. Research at the University of Chicago, 1918–1933
• 5. American Sociology, the Sociology Department, and the Chicago Tradition, 1934–1961
• Part II. Paths of Research part II Paths of Research
• 6. Hughes, Blumer, Studies on Work and Institutions, and Fieldwork
• 7. From Social Disorganization to the Theory of Labeling
• 8. Research in the World: The Study of Race and Intercultural Relations, 1913–1963
• 9. On the Margins of the Chicago Tradition: Nels Anderson and Donald Roy
• Conclusion
• Afterword to the English Translation of La Tradition Sociologique de Chicago: How Should the History of the Social Sciences Be Written?
• Appendix: Remarks on Research Methods
• Notes
• References
• Index