A Second Chicago School?

The Development of a Postwar American Sociology

By: Gary Alan Fine (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 September 1995 | Edition Number 1

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From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second "Chicago School" of sociology.

Like its predecessor earlier in the century, the postwar department was again the center for qualitative social research—on everything from mapping the nuances of human behavior in small groups to seeking solutions to problems of race, crime, and poverty. Howard Becker, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert Blumer, David Riesman, Erving Goffman, and others created a large, enduring body of work.

In this book, leading sociologists critically confront this legacy. The eight original chapters survey the issues that defined the department's agenda: the focus on deviance, race and ethnic relations, urban life, and collective behavior; the renewal of participant observation as a method and the refinement of symbolic interaction as a guiding theory; and the professional and institutional factors that shaped this generation, including the leadership of Louis Wirth and Everett C. Hughes; the role of women; and the competition for national influence Chicago sociology faced from survey research at Columbia and grand theory at Harvard. The contributors also discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the very idea of a unified "school."

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Preface
Introduction: A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology
Elaboration, Revision, Polemic, and Progress in the Second Chicago School
Research Methods and the Second Chicago School
The Ethnographic Present: Images of Institutional Control in Second-School Research
The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity in the Second Chicago School
Chicago's Two Worlds of Deviance Research: Whose Side Are They on?
The Chicago Approach to Collective Behavior
Transition and Tradition: Departmental Faculty in the Era of the Second Chicago School
The Chicago School of Sociology and the Founding of the Brandeis University Graduate Program in Sociology: A Case Study in Cultural Diffusion
The Second Sex and the Chicago School: Women's Accounts, Knowledge, and Work, 1945-1960
Ph.D. Degrees in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1965
Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1960
Contributors
Index
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