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The Chicago School, So-Called

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Many sociologists believe in the myth of a “Chicago School,” a unified and coherent body of thought and research practice carried on at the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s. Chicago never constituted such a coherent system and is better understood as a “school of activity,” a group of people who cooperated in the day-to-day running of a major department.

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Becker, H.S. The Chicago School, So-Called. Qualitative Sociology 22, 3–12 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022107414846

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