Robert E. Park (1864-1944) was a pioneer American sociologist who specialized in the dynamics of urban life, race relations, and crowd behavior and was largely responsible for standardizing the field ...
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Robert E. Park (1864-1944) was a pioneer American sociologist who specialized in the dynamics of urban life, race relations, and crowd behavior and was largely responsible for standardizing the field ...
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In the following excerpt from an article originally published in 1962, Morton and Lucia White describe Park's sociological vision of the city.
Park's career is the story of a sociolog...
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In the following essay, Turner presents an overview of Park's approach to sociology.
Probably no other man has so deeply influenced the direction taken by American empirical sociology as Rob...
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In the following essay, Eisner discusses Park's contribution to sociological theory.
Robert E. Park's doctoral dissertation, Masse und Publikum (The Crowd and the Public), was publish...
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In the following essay, Goist examines Park's concept of urban life.
Robert Redfield, a widely known anthropologist, once observed: "If one studies the rise of urban communities out o...
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In the following essay, Coser discusses Park's influences and the progress of his career.
The Work
Readers who are familiar with the work of the Chicago School of Sociology and its most infl...
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Robert E. Park
Robert E. Park
Critical Essay by Morton and Lucia White
