L'étrange carrière de la notion de classe sociale dans la tradition de Chicago en sociologie

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Chapoulie
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Classe Sociale ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Short Time ◽  
American Cities

The article examines the different uses made of the concept of social class by researchers of the Chicago School between the turn of the century and the 1940s. The concept of social class is found in Small and Cooley, rarely referred to by Park, and not found at all in the urban sociology work he inspired in the 1920s (Shaw and McKay, etc.) However it reappears in the work on race relations at the end of the 1930s (Frazier, Hughes). Substitutes were introduced in the 1920s to explain internal differentiation within American cities. The spread of new methods of documentation favoured its reappearance in social-political and scientific contexts at the end of the 1930s. This example suggests that an order of phenomena which aims to explain a concept like social class—which is both a scientific and a lay person's concept—can only be ignored for a short time by a program of empirical research. The conclusion stresses the heterogeneity of factors which take into account the transmission and non-transmission of this type of idea from one generation of sociological researchers to another.

scholarly journals Forty Four Years of Debate: The Impact of Race, Community and Conflict

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Moore
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Conflict

Race, Community and Conflict by John Rex and Robert Moore was published in 1967 and had a considerable public impact through press and TV. Forty four years later it is still widely cited in research on British urban society and ‘race relations’. It is used in teaching research methods, theory, urban sociology and ‘race relations’ to undergraduates. This article describes and explains the immediate impact of the book and its more lasting contribution to sociology. Race, Community and Conflict immediately addressed contemporary public issues around immigration and race relations and was the first book systematically to explore the responses of one city administration to the arrival of new migrants drawn in by the local demand for labour. The longer term impact of the book, it is argued, derives from its attempt to create a theoretical framework deriving from both the work of the Chicago School of Sociology and the adoption of a Weberian approach to social class and urban conflict. The combination of theorised structural analysis with detailed local ethnographic approaches to research probably accounts for the book's continued contribution to the teaching of sociology.

The American contribution to the urban sociology of race relations in Britain from the 1940s to the early 1970s

Urban History ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK CLAPSON
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Funding Research ◽  
American Contribution

From the influence of the Chicago School of sociology upon studies of black and white relations in England and Wales during and since the early 1940s, to the role of the Ford Foundation in funding research into inter-ethnic problems in Britain's cities during the 1950s and 1960s, the framework for British studies of urban race relations was primarily based upon American points of reference. This American contribution was benign, as was further evidenced in the relationship of urban research to race relations policy in Britain after 1965.

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban Transformation Through the Use of Expanded Research Tools

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110383
Author(s):  
Ana Elena Builes-Vélez ◽  
Lina María Suárez Velásquez ◽  
Leonardo Correa Velásquez ◽  
Diana Carolina Gutiérrez Aristizábal
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Design Development ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Research Tools

In recent years, urban design development has been an important topic in Latin American cities such as Medellín due to the transformation of their urban spaces, along with the new methods used to evaluate the social, morphological, and, in some cases, economic impacts that have been brought about by the urban development projects. When inquiring about the development process and impact of urban studies, and the inhabitants’ relation to a transformed space, it is important to establish the context within which images, drawings, and photographs are analyzed, using graphical approaches triangulated with other research methods to define comparative criteria. In this article, we reflect on the expanded use of various research tools for the analysis of urban transformation, taking with reference the experience lived by a group of researchers in two Latin American cities. From this, it is intended to understand how they work and how they allow us to understand the urban transformation of these cities, the data obtained, and the vision of the researchers.

Ripensare la "Sociologia urbana". Parte seconda: da bisogno di coerenza a ipotesi di imprevedibilitŕ

2009 ◽  
pp. 7-41
Author(s):  
Paolo Guidicini
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Safety Technology

- I come back to the debate which was begun in the "first part". Now, I focus on the concept of "structure" as a basic moment in the empirical research on the territory (in particular, the concept of perceived structure will be considered). After that, I will stress the connection between science and technology, and the importance to insert them in an Urban Sociology debate (Heidegger and the concept of Ge-Steel). Then, I will conclude putting into evidence the difficulty in territory fruition.Key words: social morphology, structured territorial context, safety/technology, ontology of decline.

Black and Tan Academia

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Jelani M. Favors
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Student Newspaper ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the peculiar history of Tougaloo College from its founding during the Reconstruction Era to the turn of the century. Tougaloo, is best known for being a haven for black militancy during the modern civil rights movement and one of the few safe spaces for Freedom Riders, marchers, and sit-in activists in the most notoriously violent state in the south – Mississippi. Yet its early years illustrate an institution in constant flux, trying to survive economic hardships, and under the thumb of conservative administrators and teachers who exposed Tougaloo students to the expectations of respectability politics. Nevertheless, black students carved out vital spaces for expression and utilized the pages of their student newspaper to display their expanding social and political consciousness and their desire to resist the oppressive and often violent hardships of America’s lowest point in race relations.

To “Suffer Severely from Injustice”

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-200
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Black People ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
White People ◽  
Black Intellectuals

With other turn-of-the-century Black intellectuals, Charles Chesnutt remained skeptical about the putative value of both human suffering and emotionally restrained and distanced responses to it. As a self-identified realist writing about race relations both during slavery and after Reconstruction, Chesnutt could not have ignored suffering altogether, yet representing it risked inadvertently perpetuating pernicious contemporary myths about Black inurement to pain. The challenge for Chesnutt across a range of fictional genres was to get a predominantly white audience to finally see Black suffering that they otherwise routinely ignore, discount, or deny. Upending racialized sensitivity hierarchies, Chesnutt flips the racist script that casts white people as sensitive to pain and Black people as insensitive to it. He also associates civilized superiority not simply with a remarkable sensitivity to suffering but with an even rarer inclination to respond altruistically even on behalf of those from whom the respondent feels demonstrably distanced.

Human Rights Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jost Stellmacher ◽  
Gert Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Culture Of Peace ◽  
Peace Psychology ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Reference Document

Abstract. Human rights have advanced to an important category of peace and international politics in recent decades. The reference document for human rights is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which emphasizes, among other things, the relevance of human rights education. However, this topic has been largely neglected in empirical research until now. Peace psychology might contribute to a better understanding of human rights education. The present article examines effects of human rights education on knowledge, attitudes, and commitment concerning human rights. Three university seminars dealing with human rights as one of two principal topics formed the background for three quasiexperimental studies with pre-/posttest designs. All studies demonstrate that even short-time human rights education can increase the knowledge about human rights and enhance positive attitudes and commitment concerning human rights. The discussion stresses the importance of further empirical studies on human rights education for a culture of peace.

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