Chicago sociology
Chicago sociology, Chicago SchoolA tradition of sociology associated with the University of Chicago for the first four decades of the 20th century and one which dominated North American sociology throughout this period. It was the first department of sociology to be established (in 1892 by Albion Small), and with it came the first main sociological journal, the American Journal of Sociology (in 1895); the establishing of the American Sociological Association (1905); the first major student text, Robert Park and Ernest Burgess's Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921); a large graduate school; and an important series of research monographs. Much of this is catalogued in the many histories that have been written about the ‘Chicago School’. (The best of these include R. E. L. Faris, Chicago Sociology, 1967; M. Bulmer, The Chicago School of...
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