In this original and convincing study, Rolf Lindner argues that the method of urban research constituting the core of the famous Chicago School of sociology is ultimately indebted to the tradition of urban reportage. However, the argument goes beyond a reconstruction of the relationship between journalism and sociology. Professor Lindner shows how the figure of the city reporter at the turn of the century represents a new way of looking at life, and reflects a transformation in American culture, from rejecting variety to embracing it.
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"Overall, this is a very rich study of the origins of the Chicago School and of the intellectual influences on Robert Park. That he saw a sociologist as in reality a poet, committed through 'intuition and sensitivity' to dissecting the 'ossified shells of conventional thought,' suggests why this discipline still has much to contribute to the study of the urban world." Peter McGahan, Urban History Review
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In this original and convincing study, Rolf Lindner argues that the method of urban research constituting the core of the famous Chicago School of sociology is ultimately indebted to the tradition of urban reportage. However, the argument goes beyond a reconstruction of the relationship between journalism and sociology. Professor Lindner show how the figure of the city reporter at the turn of the century represents a new way of looking at life, and reflects a transformation in American culture, from rejecting variety to embracing it.
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'So entirely absorbed do these urchins become in their vocation', wrote Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper about newspaper boys on 2 August 1856, 'that they keep up their cries along an entire block of buildings in which every house is closed and not a possible purchaser in sight.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wish for new experience, marginal intelligentsia, exposure reporting, big city press, adoption hypothesis, marginal man, cultural undercurrent, man farthest, delinquent career, journalistic reporting, prevention perspective, empirical sociology, biographical method, hotel life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hutchins Hapgood, Chicago School, United States, Lincoln Steffens, University of Chicago, Nels Anderson, Robert Ezra Park, Robert Park, Greenwich Village, Burgess Reader, East Side, Josiah Flynt, Old World, The Polish Peasant, George Santayana, Mulberry Street, Ray Stannard Baker, Little Italy, New Journalism, Sinclair Lewis, The Man Farthest Down, Thought News, Walt Whitman, William James New!
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'So entirely absorbed do these urchins become in their vocation', wrote Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper about newspaper boys on 2 August 1856, 'that they keep up their cries along an entire block of buildings in which every house is closed and not a possible purchaser in sight.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wish for new experience, marginal intelligentsia, exposure reporting, big city press, adoption hypothesis, marginal man, cultural undercurrent, man farthest, delinquent career, journalistic reporting, prevention perspective, empirical sociology, biographical method, hotel life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hutchins Hapgood, Chicago School, United States, Lincoln Steffens, University of Chicago, Nels Anderson, Robert Ezra Park, Robert Park, Greenwich Village, Burgess Reader, East Side, Josiah Flynt, Old World, The Polish Peasant, George Santayana, Mulberry Street, Ray Stannard Baker, Little Italy, New Journalism, Sinclair Lewis, The Man Farthest Down, Thought News, Walt Whitman, William James New!
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- Following the Color Line by Ray S. Baker on 6 pages
- The Spirit of the Ghetto (Belknap Press) by Hutchins Hapgood on 5 pages
- The Professional Thief By a Professional Thief by Chic.Annotated by Edwin H.Sutherland. Conwell on 4 pages
- Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood on 4 pages
- World of Graft by Josiah Flynt on page 25, page 26, and Back Matter
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- Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations by David Frisby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America by Todd DePastino in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations by David Frisby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the Wars (German and European Studies) by Susan Gross Solomon on page 287
- Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City by Simon Parker in Back Matter
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