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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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 historians, and social geographers might usefully be amalgamated with the ongoing tradition originating...

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...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to...