Chicago School
Social Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22366626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Abbott (0000-0001-9320-1685, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc025 |
| OpenAlex | W4246513382 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Like most schools of thought, the Chicago School was not a unified and single‐minded orthodoxy. Although the idea of social change was essential to virtually all the Chicago writers, they defined it in various ways and then used those resulting concepts in quite varying places in their work. It was only William Fielding Ogburn who foregrounded the phrase itself in his writings. But for W. I. Thomas on the one hand and Robert Park and Ernest Burgess on the other, change was, if possible, even more central than it was for Ogburn. Yet, in the long run, both sociologists and popular literature have chosen to accept Ogburn's sense of social change as society‐wide upheaval and transformation (indeed, this is now the lay sense of the phrase). But that current meaning should not lead us to read the Chicago works teleologically. (For the standard account of the Chicago School in English, see Bulmer 1984; for more recent revisionist accounts with relatively current bibliographies, see Abbott 1999; Chapoulie 2001.)
Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Orthodoxy · Phrase · Political science · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |