The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance 9780773589698

A collection of innovative essays from leading scholars in the Chicago School tradition of sociology.

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The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance
 9780773589698

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
INTRODUCTION - The Chicago School as Symbol and Enactment
SECTION I - (Re)Visiting the Chicago School(s)
1 - Hull-House and the Chicago Schools of Sociology: Public and Liberation Sociology on Race, Class, Gender, and Peace, 1892–1920
2 - Was There a Black Chicago School?
3 - Chicago’s Proclivity to Qualitative Sociology: Myth or Reality?
4 - After the Barren Search for Laws
SECTION II - Mead and Goffman: Key Thinkers of the Chicago School Diaspora
5 - Finding G.H. Mead’s Social Ontology in His Engagement with Key Intellectual Influences
6 - Mending Mead’s “I” and “Me” Distinction
7 - Working the Chicago Interstices: Warner and Goffman’s Intellectual Formation
8 - Reading Goffman: On the Creation of an Enigmatic Founder
SECTION III - The Chicago School Diaspora: Urban Ecology
9 - Nels Anderson and the Chicago School of Urban Sociology
10 - Flop Houses, Fancy Hotels, and “Second-Rate Bohemia”: Zorbaugh’s The Gold Coast and the Slum and the Gentrification Debate
11 - Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: A New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach
12 - Tourist Zones, Emotional Buttons, and the Ubiquitous Beggar
13 - Constructions of Public and Private Spheres in the Soviet Communal Apartment: Erving Goffman’s Notion of Territories of Self
14 - Urban Imagery, Tourism, and the Future of New Orleans
SECTION IV - The Chicago School Diaspora: Boundaries, Constructions, and Claims
15 - Hassidim Confronting Modernity
16 - What Is “Genius” in Arts and “Brain Drain” in Life Science?
17 - Situating The Hobo: Romancing the Road from Vagabondia to Hobohemia
18 - Constructing Stockholm Syndrome: A Definitional History
SECTION V - The Chicago School Diaspora: New Directions
19 - Aristotle’s Theory of Education: Enduring Lessons in Pragmatist Scholarship
20 - Symbolic Interaction and Organizational Leadership: From Theory to Practice in University Settings
21 - The Emperor Has No Clothes: Waning Idealism and the Professionalization of Sociologists
22 - Formal Grounded Theory, the Serious Leisure Perspective, and Positive Sociology
Contributors
Index

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