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1 online resource (vii, 398 pages) |
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Machine generated contents note: SECTION I (RE)VISITING THE CHICAGO SCHOOL(S) -- 1. Hull-House and the Chicago Schools of Sociology: Public and Liberation Sociology on Race, Class, Gender, and Peace, 1892 -- 1920 / Mary Jo Deegan -- 2. Was There a Black Chicago School? / Roger A. Salerno -- 3. Chicago's Proclivity to Qualitative Sociology: Myth or Reality? / David A. Nock -- 4. After the Barren Search for Laws / George Park -- SECTION II MEAD AND GOFFMAN: KEY THINKERS OF THE CHICAGO SCHOOL DIASPORA -- 5. Finding G.H. Mead's Social Ontology in His Engagement with Key Intellectual Influences / Antony J. Puddephatt -- 6. Mending Mead's "I" and "Me" Distinction / Gary A. Cook -- 7. Working the Chicago Interstices: Warner and Goffman's Intellectual Formation / Yves Winkin -- 8. Reading Goffman: On the Creation of an Enigmatic Founder / Isher-Paul Sahni -- SECTION III CHICAGO SCHOOL DIASPORA: URBAN ECOLOGY -- 9. Nels Anderson and the Chicago School of Urban Sociology / Rolf Lindner -- 10. Flop Houses, Fancy Hotels, and "Second-Rate Bohemia": Zorbaugh's The Gold Coast and the Slum and the Gentrification Debate / Mervyn Horgan -- 11. Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: A New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park's Urban Ecological Approach / Mourad Mjahed -- 12. Tourist Zones, Emotional Buttons, and the Ubiquitous Beggar / Gary Bowden -- 13. Constructions of Public and Private Spheres in the Soviet Communal Apartment: Erving Goffman's Notion of Territories of Self / Defne Over -- 14. Urban Imagery, Tourism, and the Future of New Orleans / DeMond S. Miller -- SECTION IV CHICAGO SCHOOL DIASPORA: BOUNDARIES, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND CLAIMS -- 15. Hassidim Confronting Modernity / William Shaffir -- 16. What Is "Genius" in Arts and "Brain Drain" in Life Science? / Izabela Wagner -- 17. Situating The Hobo: Romancing the Road from Vagabondia to Hobohemia / Jeffrey Brown -- 18. Constructing Stockholm Syndrome: A Definitional History / Dorothy Pawluch -- SECTION V CHICAGO SCHOOL DIASPORA: NEW DIRECTIONS -- 19. Aristotle's Theory of Education: Enduring Lessons in Pragmatist Scholarship / Robert Prus -- 20. Symbolic Interaction and Organizational Leadership: From Theory to Practice in University Settings / Scott Grills -- 21. Emperor Has No Clothes: Waning Idealism and the Professionalization of Sociologists / Jacqueline Low -- 22. Formal Grounded Theory, the Serious Leisure Perspective, and Positive Sociology / Robert A. Stebbins |
| Summary |
When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892 it established the first sociology department in the United States. The department grew rapidly in reputation and influence and by the 1920s graduates of its program were heading newly formed sociology programs across the country and determining the direction of the discipline and its future research. Their way of thinking about social relations revolutionized the social sciences by emphasizing an empirical approach to research, instead of the more philosophical "armchair" perspective that previously prevailed in American sociology. The Chicago School Diaspora presents work by Canadian and international scholars who identify with what they understand as the "Chicago School tradition." Broadly speaking, many of the scholars affiliated with sociology at Chicago understood human behaviour to be determined by social structures and environmental factors, rather than personal and biological characteristics. Contributors highlight key thinkers and epistemological issues associated with the Chicago School, as well as contemporary empirical research. Offering innovative theoretical explanations for the diversity and breadth of its scholarly traditions, The Chicago School Diaspora offers a fresh approach to ideas, topics, and approaches associated with the origins of North American sociology. Contributors include Michael Adorjan (University of Hong Kong, China), Gary Bowden (University of New Brunswick), Jeffrey Brown (University of New Brunswick), Tony Christensen (Wilfrid Laurier University), Luis Cisneros (postdoctoral scholar, University of Arizona), Gary A. Cook (Beloit College), Mary Jo Deegan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Scott Grills (Brandon University), Mervyn Horgan (Acadia University), Mark Hutter (Rowan University), Benjamin Kelly (Nipissing University), Rolf Lindner (Humboldt University & HafenCity University, Germany), Jacqueline Low (University of New Brunswick), Mourad Mjahed (Peace Corps, Rabat, Morocco), DeMond S. Miller (Rowan University), Edward Nell (New School for Social Research), David A. Nock (Lakehead University), and Defne Over (PhD candidate, Cornell University). Contributors also include George Park (Memorial University), Thomas K. Park (University of Arizona), Dorothy Pawluch (McMaster University), Robert Prus (University of Waterloo), Antony J. Puddephatt (Lakehead University), Isher-Paul Sahni (Concordia University), Roger A. Salerno (Pace University), William Shaffir (McMaster University), Greg Smith (University of Salford, UK), Robert A. Stebbins (University of Calgary), Izabela Wagner (Warsaw University, Poland and CEMS EHESS - School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, France), and Yves Winkin (ENS Lyon, France). --Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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University of Chicago. Department of Sociology -- Influence -- History
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| SUBJECT |
University of Chicago. Department of Sociology fast |
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Chicago school of sociology -- History
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Sociology -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
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Sociology -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Chicago school of sociology
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Sociology
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Illinois -- Chicago
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowden, Gary Lee, 1953- author, writer of introduction, editor
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Low, Jacqueline, 1964- author, writer of introduction, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773589698 |
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0773589694 |
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