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A SECOND CHICAGO SCHOOL?
DEVELOPMENT OF A POSTWAR SOCIOLOGY |
| By: |
Gary Alan Fine, Joseph R. Gusfield |
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Hardback |
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£104.00 |
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£93.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226249387 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226249384 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1995 |
| Pages: |
436 |
| Description: |
From 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second "Chicago School" of sociology. In this book, sociologists critically confront this legacy and discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the idea of a unified "school". |
| Synopsis: |
From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second "Chicago School" of sociology. Like its predecessor earlier in the century, the postwar department was again the centre for qualitative social research - on everything from mapping the nuances of human behaviour in small groups to seeking solutions to problems of race, crime and poverty. Howard Becker, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert Blumer, David Riesman, Erving Goffman and others created a large, enduring body of work. In this book, leading sociologists critically confront this legacy. The eight original chapters survey the issues that defined the department's agenda: the focus on deviance, race and ethnic relations, urban life and collective behaviour; the renewal of participant observation as a method and the refinement of symbolic interaction as a guiding theory; and the professional and institutional factors that shaped this generation, including the leadership of Louis Wirth and Everett C.Hughes; the role of women; and the competition for national influence which Chicago sociology faced from survey research at Columbia and grand theory at Harvard. The contributors also discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the very idea of a unified "school". |
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Ill. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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