1st Edition

The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilisation Robert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities

By Barbara Ballis Lal Copyright 1990
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, originally published in 1990, the author presents a general, critical overview of Robert E. Park and the Chicago school of American sociology. Lal concentrates on the contribution that Park and those working within the Chicago school tradition have made to the area of urban race and ethnicity, and suggests how the current thinking among sociologists, anthropologists, social... Read more

Acknowledgments;  Introduction;  1. Social Context and Individual Biography  2. Culture, Communication, and Social Control  3. Park’s Approach to Race and Ethnic Relations  4. The Emergence of an Ethnographic Tradition  5. Immigrants and the ‘Ethnicity Paradox’  6. ‘Bright Lights, Impending Shadows’: Afro-American Migration to Northern Cities  7. Getting It Together: A Scheme of Interpretation;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Name Index;  Subject Index

Biography

Barbara Ballis Lal