The newspaper has a history; but it has, likewise, a natural history. The press, as it exists, is not, as our moralists sometimes seem to assume, the willful product of any little group of living men. On the contrary, it is the outcome of an historic process in which many individuals participated without foreseeing what the ultimate product of their labors was to be. The newspaper, like the modern city, is not wholly a rational product. No one sought to make it just what it is. In spite of...

Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944) gilt als der Begründer der empirischen Stadtsoziologie und der humanökologischen Forschungsrichtung an der Universität Chicago (»Chicagoer Schule für Soziologie«). Er prägte den Begriff des ›kollektiven Verhaltens‹, widmete sich der Erforschung von Rassenbeziehungen und Kulturkonflikten und Setzte sich mit der Bedeutung von kommunikativen Vorgängen auseinander. Park formulierte die »melting pot«-Theorie multiethnischer Integration von Einwanderern in die Kultur...

Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944) gilt als der Begründer der empirischen Stadtsoziologie und der humanökologischen Forschungsrichtung an der Universität Chicago (»Chicagoer Schule für Soziologie«). Er prägte den Begriff des ›kollektiven Verhaltens‹, widmete sich der Erforschung von Rassenbeziehungen und Kulturkonflikten und setzte sich mit der Bedeutung von kommunikativen Vorgängen auseinander. Park formulierte die »melting pot«-Theorie multiethnischer Integration von Einwanderern in die Kultur...

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and institutions, seeking patterns within the city's riot of people, events, and influen...

La città rappresenta un fondamentale manifesto teorico della ricerca urbana condotta a Chicago dalla Scuola di Sociologia negli anni Venti e Trenta. Il volume unisce l’analisi ecologica dello sviluppo urbano, che studia l’aggregarsi e il movimento degli individui nello spazio e nel tempo della città, con l’indagine storiografica sull’espansione della metropoli industriale e commerciale moderna. La città, in quanto contesto sociale e fisico, produce emozioni e relazioni inedite, intrecciand...

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and institutions, seeking patterns within the city’s riot of people, events, and influen...

The Man Farthest Down represents an early contribution to the study of comparative social systems. Its treatment of life in the East European shtetls is as moving as the analysis of ghetto life in America. In his new introduction to this edition, Drake illustrates the intellectual camaraderie shared between Park and Washington in their studies of race. Drake also details their individual observations, philosophies, and activities in both their academic and political lives.

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

I sociologi di Chicago, rappresentanti di una disciplina che era da poco riuscita ad ottenere legittimità a livello accademico, avvertivano l’esigenza di fornire ai propri interessi di ricercatori un quadro concettuale che avrebbe permesso loro di ricevere riconoscimento da parte dei colleghi delle altre discipline. Essi non si limitarono a raccogliere, nel laboratorio della città di Chicago, frammentarie notizie, ma cercarono di costruire una “teoria sociologica”. È in questo contesto che...

First published in 1921 and then reprinted in 2003. This is Volume I of Old World Traits Transplanted, the early sociology of culture. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nero Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game.Archie Goodwin and detective Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line...

In offering the American public a carefully studied outline of its national park system, I have two principal objects. The one is to describe and differentiate the national parks in a manner which will enable the reader to appreciate their importance, scope, meaning, beauty, manifold uses and enormous value to individual and nation. The other is to use these parks, in which Nature is writing in large plain lines the story of America's making, as examples illustrating the several kinds of s...