Park, Robert Ezra
Park, Robert Ezra (1864–1944)A leading member of the Chicago School, who introduced the work of Georg Simmel to a generation of American sociologists, mainly indirectly and via the widely used textbook Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921) co-authored with Ernest W. Burgess. Park and Burgess were leading practitioners of human ecology. Much of the theory of what came to be called ‘classical human ecology’ was stimulated by Park's writings and teaching at Chicago (see, for example, his definitive article on ‘Human Ecology’ in the American Journal of Sociology, 1936). Park argued that the basic process underlying social relationships was competition; however, because of human interdependence due to the division of labour,...
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