The reportage of urban culture : Robert Park and the Chicago school

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The reportage of urban culture : Robert Park and the Chicago school

Rolf Lindner ; translated by Adrian Morris with Jeremy Gaines and Martin Chalmers

(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 43)

Cambridge University Press, c1996

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Die Entdeckung der Stadtkultur : Soziologie aus der Erfahrung der Reportage

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Entdeckung der Stadtkultur

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Bibliography: p. 205-227

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Description

Fascination with urban life has encouraged a growing interest in the 'Chicago School' of sociology by students of sociological history. It is generally accepted that the field research practised by the Chicago sociologists during the 1920s - the 'Golden Age of Chicago sociology' - used methods borrowed from anthropology. However, Rolf Lindner also argues convincingly that the orientation of urban research advocated by Robert Park, the key figure in the Chicago School and himself a former reporter, is ultimately indebted to the tradition of urban reportage. The Reportage of Urban Culture goes beyond a thorough reconstruction of the relationship between journalism and sociology. It shows how the figure of the city reporter at the turn of the century represents a different way of looking at life, and reflects a transformation in American culture, from rejecting variety to embracing it.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: 1. 'News': the reporter and the new
  • 2. The sociologist as city editor: Robert Ezra Park
  • 3. Reporters in depth: a comparison of journalistic and sociological studies
  • Part II: 4. Marginality and experience
  • 5. 'To see life': the cultural undercurrent
  • 6. Uncle Sam and young Sammy: sociology between reform and report
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.

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