Th Chicago School Flashcards
Chicago school intro facts
First sociology school in North America
Interested in who , what is in your neighbourhood schools, crime rate, ethnic groups
7x increase in 50 years
Modern
1920s Chicago
Population exploded
Diverse growth
Politics changes
Economic wealth
Cultural
Population exploded
Gateway to the west: largest railway
Diverse growth
Europeans, Poland, Irish, Jewish , Chinese, African Americans
Political changes
Government should be assisting the poor
Protect them
Social welfare
Economic wealth
Consumerism
Ferris wheel
Cultural
Jazz blue al Capone
Rise in organized crime
Goals of Chicago school
Stressed the importance of neighbourhoods and the institutions found within (church’s, schools)
City divided into distinct cultural worlds, defined by he shared identity and self-understanding of community members
Laboratory
Direct observation and comparison of the diverse communities
Used maps to interpret social patterns
Slum
Overcrowded urban street inhabited by the poor
Second generation thing to adjust
Human ecology
Goal: group all of the social diversity of the city into a single perspective
Use of metaphors from the natural sciences
Similar to both an ecosystem and an organism
Demonstrate that here was an underlying order to the seemingly chaotic city
Metabolism
The chemical processes that occurs within a living organisms in order to maintain life
= how cities grow by absorbing migrant populations and expanding outward geographically
Burgess concentric model zone 1: central business district
Most demand
Most expensive
Downtown
The loop
Loop around the city
Biggest buildings
Zone 2: zone in transition
Outside loop Railyards, stock yards Noisy, polluted Slums, poorest of the poor Also zone of regeneration
Ex:wars (new immigrants)
Zone 3: working men’s homes
Residential zone dominated by the working class
Located in major zones of employment
