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by Robert Ezra Park, Ernest Watson Burgess, Roderick Duncan McKenzie ยท 1967
ISBN: 0226646084 9780226646084
Category: History / United States / 20th Century
Page count: 239
First published in 1925, <i>The City </i>is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago School of Sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators documented the interplay between individuals and larger social structures and institutions, seeking patterns within the city's riot of people, events, and influences. As sociologist Robert J. Sampson notes in his new foreword, though much has changed since <i>The City </i>was first published, we can still benefit from its charge to explain where and why social and racial groups live as they do.