Reviews : Lee Harvey, Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology, Aldershot: Avebury/Gower Publishing, 1987, £23.50, vi + 350 pp

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-293
Author(s):  
Peter J. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Chicago School ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology

Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Fulong Wu ◽  
Zheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology

The seminal works by Park and the Chicago school of sociology are of great value for studying a rapidly urbanising China characterised by the decline of the formerly socialist structure and the increasing commodification of services and housing. Their assertion that the industrial organisation of cities has substituted primary and neighbourhood relations with secondary relations characterised by anonymity and utilitarianism also resonates with the rising middle-class population in China. However, our chapter contends that certain population groups have not followed the trajectory of change described by Park but instead continue to rely on primary and local social relations due to interventions of the Chinese state. Our argument is supported by a discussion on the varying social relations in Chinese urban neighbourhoods and specifically on the social life of rural migrants in the urban Chinese society.

Reviving a Lost Potential of the Chicago School of Sociology?

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-241
Author(s):  
Henry Yu
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Early Survey ◽  
Lost Potential ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology ◽  
Asian Migration

This paper traces the effects of anti-Asian politics and immigration exclusion in shaping early studies of Asian migration in the Pacific region, in particular within the United States, Canada, and Australian. Yu argues that there are collaborative community research approaches that marked early 20th century studies of Asian migrants to North America that should be recovered, a lost potential of early survey research work of the Chicago school of sociology in general.

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