CHICAGO SCHOOL
Chicago School refers to the
research and social theory that emerged in the first half of the 20th century from the
world's first school of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Because of its success, the
city of Chicago was seen as a laboratory for sociological research into the effects of
urbanism on culture and social relationships.
In criminology, Chicago
School focused on the socio-cultural causes of urban crime and on crime prevention.
Oliver C. Cox and the
Chicago School of Sociology - Its Influence on His Education, Marginalization, and
Contemporary Effect - Yolanda Y. Johnson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Oliver C. Cox did a study on the marital trends of Negroes (African Americans) in 1938 and
found that the sex ratio and male employment status of a given area could predict the
marriage rates for said area. His findings are very similar to present sociological
literature on African American marital trends. He is not, however, credited for his
foundational role in the genesis of the theory of the marriageable male. He was a student
in the Chicago School of Sociology during the tenure of many of the school’s most
prominent faculty. Many of these leading faculty members were also his instructors in
addition to presiding as president of the American Sociological Association at some point
in their careers. Despite his connection to these powerful sociologists, Cox was relegated
to the margins of his discipline. He has been successfully hidden from the cannon of
marriageable male research. - jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/1/99
Los Angeles and the Chicago
School: Invitation to a Debate - Michael Dear
Until very recently, debates about urban structure have been dominated by the precepts of
the 'Chicago School,' which include the notion that the city is a coherent regional system
where the center organizes its hinterland. The rise of an 'LA School' reverses this logic,
insisting that in contemporary cities the hinterlands organize what is left of the center.
This essay begins to explore the divergent theoretical and empirical consequences
following upon such a conceptual upheaval. By placing Chicago alongside Los Angeles, an
important and long-overdue debate on comparative urban analysis is joined. -
blackwell-synergy.com
The rise, hegemony, and
decline of the Chicago School of Sociology, 1892-1945
Author: Cortese A.J. Source: The Social Science Journals, Volume 32, Number 3, 1995.
Abstract: This article suggests how knowledge, scientific activities, and academic
disciplines are socially situated and driven through an empirical investigation of the
social origin and development of the Chicago School of Sociology. The world's first
department of sociology was founded at the University of Chicago in 1892. Millions of
dollars from the Rockefeller foundation were used to lure some of the most distinguished
scholars to Chicago. The Chicago School of sociology, under the charismatic leadership of
Robert E. Park, acquired paradigmatic status. The School contibuted significantly to the
scientific community's collectively negotiated social order. Using the Tiryakian
“Schools” approach to the development of the social sciences, the Chicago School
of Sociology is examined. The origin, rise, and components of the School are outlined. For
twenty years the Chicago School reigned as the first hegemonic paradigm in the history of
American sociology. The etiology of the School's decline is addressed. The departure of
Park, increasing doubts over the scientific status of the discipline, the changing
concepts of the role of the sociologist, and the rise of other sociology departments, most
notably at Harvard and Columbia, contributed to the decline of the School. The Chicago
School of Sociology as an open, cooperative, interdisciplinary supportive environment of
intellectual and methodological eclecticism, is a paradigm to be emulated. -
sciencedirect.com
The Mixed Legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology - Jonathan H. Turner
Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 3, Waving the Flag for Old Chicago (Jul., 1988)
Abstract: This article examines the legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology. Because the
Chicago department so dominated sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, it created the mold or
template on which new departments, or the expansion of older ones, were modeled in the
1930s and in the post-World War II period. The legacy of this situation is mixed: On the
one hand, the Chicago department made sociology a legitimate discipline in a hostile
academic environment, whereas, on the other hand, it helped create a discipline so
diversified in substantive specialties, so atheoretical, and so concerned with narrow
research and quantitative methods that serious problems of intellectual and organizational
integration confront contemporary American sociology. - jstor.org
Criminology, the Chicago School, and sociological theory - Short Jr. J.F.
Abstract: Although the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago was never
known as a center for sociological theory, major contributions were made in such areas as
social disorganization, human ecology and demography, urbanism, professions, institutional
development, community organization and development, as well as criminology and deviance.
These theoretical contributions did not qualify as grand theory, but all were in the
Chicago tradition of theoretically interpretive empirical work. The Project on Human
Development in Chicago Neighborhoods – Chicago-style research at its best –
continues that tradition, wherever it is practiced and whatever its specific aims. -
ingentaconnect.com
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