The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research

by Martin Bulmer

Book Overview

From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. "This is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080048
• ISBN13: 9780226080048
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.