Description
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the enduring influence of Introduction to the Science of
Sociology, published a century ago by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess. It brings
together scholars from the United States, Canada, and Italy, who collectively
demonstrate the work’s enduring relevance and its important role in the dialogue
between European and American sociology. The contributors examine topics raised
in the original text that remain as relevant as ever, including segregation, the concept
of assimilation and the marginal man, subcultures, constructive isolation, collective
behavior, the German roots of the Chicago School, socio-spatial evolution over
time, fashion and metropolis, and social creativity from the ecological school to the
digital challenge.
Table of ContentsRereading Introduction to the Science of Sociology at One Hundred. Critical Perspectives and News - Giuseppina Cersosimo – On the Centenary of Park and Burgess’s Introduction to the Science of Sociology: Sociology, History, and the Social Sciences from 1921 to 2021 - Andrew Abbott – Becoming a Classic: The Case of the “Green Bible” - Peter Kivisto – Park & Burgess’s Introduction to the Science of Sociology through the Lens of the Chicago School Diaspora - Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden – Introduction to the Science of Sociology and the Sociology of Religion - Anthony J. Blasi – Chicago 1921: The Making of the Introduction and of the School - Raffaele Rauty – Sweet Home Chicago? Robert Ezra Park, Louis Wirth and the German Roots of the Chicago School - Agostino Petrillo – Segregation: Heritage and Limits of an Ecological Category - Maria Grazia Montesano – Robert E. Park: The Concept of Assimilation and Its Shifts - Sonia Floriani – A Gaze from the Margins. Constructive Isolation and Sociological Sensibility - Giuseppe Toscano – The Dawn of Collective Behavior Theory and Beyond: The Influence of the Chicago School on Contemporary Research - Liana M. Daher – Fashion and the Metropolis: An Inseparable Link in the Introduction Still Relevant Today - Giorgia Mavica – The Concept of Neighborhood according to Chicagoans and Its Socio-spatial Evolution over Time: The Case of Milan - Luca Bottini and Giampaolo Nuvolati – Urban Space and Popular Music. Exploring Social Creativity from the Ecological School to the Digital Challenge - Massimiliano Raffa – Subcultures. Word, Concept and Theories in the Chicago School - Carlo Genova – Conclusion - Giuseppina Cersosimo – Notes on Contributors
