A reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, its contributions in the theoretical and methodological fields, and its influence on the growth of sociology throughout the world, and in American in particular. The text pays particular attention to the eclectic nature of the research methods used by Chicago sociologists as they sought to integrate subjective and objective aspects of human life. It demonstrates that this eclecticism formed an integral part of their theories, but also emphasizes that empirical observation, too, was important, although not as an end in itself. The Chicago School developed a profusion of scoiological theories in many areas of inquiry, and never opted for one particular approach. The various essays in this work seek to make it clear that the school made a decisive contribution to the development of qualitative and quantitative techniques.
By:
Luigi Tomasi
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 159mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781840144642
ISBN 10: 1840144645
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 11 August 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents: Theoretical Problematic: The Gothic foundation of Robert E. Park’s conception of race and culture; The contribution of Georg Simmel to the foundation of theory at the Chicago School of Sociology; The neighbourhood and deviance in the Chicago School, a relationistic interpretation; The place of the Chicago School of Sociology in the study of nationality and ethnicity. Methodological Approach: Chicago sociology and the empirical impulse: its implications for sociological theorizing; Chicago methods: reputations and realities; Seventy years of fieldwork in sociology, from Nels Anderson’s The Hobo to Elijah Anderson’s Streetwise; One hundred years of methodological research, the example of Chicago. Important Sociologists From Chicago And The Actuality Of The Chicago Approach: George Herbert Mead’s transformation of his intellectual context; Erving Goffman: a symbolic interactionist?; Persistence and change: fundamental elements in Herbert Blumer’s metatheoretical perspective; The sociology of ’going concerns’, Everett Hughes’ interpretive institutional ecology; The Chicago School of Sociology’s heritage in Polish sociology; Index; Contributors.
