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The Chicago-school - Although on the moment the study of the history of sociology gains in significance, most of its attention is given to the sociology of persons (Weber, Tarde, Wright Mills etc.) and the general orientations (analytical sociology, sociology of conflict, functionalism, etc.). If one however will arrive at a full understanding of the development of sociological thought, it is too necessary to study the history of the institutional context, in which definite styles of sociological work originate. The studies of the American sociologist Terry Clark for example about the school of the French sociologist Emile Durkheim are in this respect very illuminating and even unveiling. They mean the beginning of a new kind of interpretation of the influence of Durkheim (European Journal of Sociology, IX, 1968, 1, pp. 37-91). In this article an attempt is made to give a vivacious picture of the famous Chicago-school. There is given a demonstration of the origins, flourishing-period and decay of the school at the; new-built university of Chicago (1892). Within this frame of reference attention is given to the sociologists William Isaac Thomas (1863-1947) and Robert Ezra Park (1864-1944). They play a leading role in this exposition. A circumstantial explanation is given of the sociological theories they have developed. The impact of the Chicago-school on American sociology has been very substantial until about 1940. The there-formed style of research and teaching was strongly influenced by the remarkable growth of the city of Chicago and the institutional context of the department of sociology at that place.
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How to Cite: Goddijn, H. (1972) “De sociologie van Chicago”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 17(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95925