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The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology (Paperback)
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The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology (Paperback)
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The value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive
features of the Chicago School, of its contributions in the
theoretical and methodological fields and of its influence on the
growth of sociology throughout the world and in America in
particular. The book pays particularly close attention to the
eclectic nature of the research methods used by the Chicago
sociologists as they sought to integrate subjective and objective
aspects of human life. It demonstrates that this eclecticism formed
an integral part of their theories but also emphasises that
empirical observation, too, was important, although not as an end
in itself. While, for example, they were working on the concepts of
organization, marginality and interaction, they did not consider
these as ends in themselves but as additions to the development of
a more general theoretical approach. Often in the past, and
wrongly, Chicago’s theoretical contribution has been restricted
to the urban sector. The book clearly and unequivocally reveals how
the tendency to see the Chicago School as a 'theoretical' is the
result of misinterpretation and of a failure to realize that, for
the sociologists of the period, understanding the social dynamics
of the city of Chicago was tantamount to interpreting the central
tendencies of modern society itself. The book analyzes how
empirical observation was important but not an end in itself. The
Chicago School developed a profusion of sociological theories in
many areas of inquiry and never opted for any one particular
approach. The various essays in the book also make it clear that
the School decisively contributed to the development of qualitative
and quantitative techniques.
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