Chicago School of sociology

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The Chicago School of sociology is a pioneering early 20th-century sociological tradition centered at the University of Chicago, renowned for its empirical urban research and development of symbolic interactionism.

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instanceOf academic school of thought
sociological tradition
basedIn University of Chicago NERFINISHED
contrastedWith quantitative survey-based sociology
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developedAt Department of Sociology, University of Chicago NERFINISHED
emergedInPeriod early 20th century
field sociology
hasKeyConcept definition of the situation
human ecology
interaction order
natural areas
social disorganization
social ecology
the self as social
urban zones
hasKeyFigure Clifford R. Shaw NERFINISHED
Ernest W. Burgess NERFINISHED
Everett C. Hughes NERFINISHED
Florian Znaniecki NERFINISHED
George Herbert Mead NERFINISHED
Henry D. McKay NERFINISHED
Herbert Blumer NERFINISHED
Howard S. Becker NERFINISHED
Louis Wirth NERFINISHED
Robert E. Park NERFINISHED
W. I. Thomas NERFINISHED
historicalPhase first Chicago School of sociology
influenced criminology
environmental sociology
qualitative methodology in sociology
symbolic interactionism
urban anthropology
influencedBy American pragmatism NERFINISHED
Charles Horton Cooley NERFINISHED
George Herbert Mead NERFINISHED
John Dewey NERFINISHED
knownFor case study method
development of symbolic interactionism
ecological approach to the city
empirical urban research
ethnographic fieldwork
participant observation
qualitative research methods
study of community life
study of deviance
study of migration
study of race and ethnic relations
study of social disorganization
urban sociology
locatedIn Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
methodologicalOrientation grounded empirical research
inductive theory building
researchFocus city as a social laboratory
everyday interactions
street-level social life

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Georg Simmel influenced Chicago School of sociology
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Mind, Self and Society influenced Chicago School of sociology
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Chicago (via Jane Addams) knownFor Chicago School of sociology
subject surface form: Chicago