Chicago School of Sociology Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research

Name: Chicago School of Sociology Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research
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ISBN: 9780226080055

ISBN-10: 0226080056

ISBN-13: 9780226080055

Edition: 1984

Authors: Martin Bulmer

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From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. "This is an important piece of work on the history of sociology, but it is more than merely historical: Martin Bulmer's undertaking is also to explain why historical events occurred as they did, using potentially general theoretical ideas. He has studied…

Book details

Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Significance of the Chicago School of Sociology



Chicago: The City and Its University



The Establishment of the Social Sciences



The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Landmark of Empirical Sociology



Sociology, the Social Survey Movement, andThe Negro in Chicago



The Development of Field Research Methods



The Organization of Sociology by Park and Burgess



The Local Community Research Committee, 1923-30



The Development of Quantitative Methods in the Early 1920s



Quantitative Methods in the Later 1920s



The Chicago Manifold



The Conditions of Creativity A Note on Documentary Sources


Notes


Index