The Chicago School of Sociology

by Bulmer, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780226080055
• ISBN10: 0226080056
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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 what he sees as the period, from 1915 to 1935, when the 'Chicago School' most flourished, and defines the nature of its achievements and what made them possible . . . It is likely to become the indispensible historical source for its topic."--Jennifer Platt,Sociology

Author Biography

Martin Bulmer is senior lecturer in social administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of London. His publications include Neighbours: The Work of Philip Abrams and Essays on the History of British Sociological Research.

Table of Contents

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

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