1st Edition

The Chicago School: Critical Assessments

Edited By Ken Plummer
1024 Pages
by Routledge

The Chicago School was the first major school of sociology in the USA, dominating the field for the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the nineteenth century British social survey methods of Charles Booth and others, and influenced by continental European social theorists, the Chicago School moved in an ethnographic direction as they studied immigrant communities ,... Read more
VOLUME 1: A CHICAGO CANON?, VOLUME II: THEORY, HISTORY AND FOUNDATIONS, VOLUME III: SUBSTANTIVE CONCERNS - RACE, CRIME AND THE CITY, VOLUME IV: METHODOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE

Biography

Ken Plummer