The Integrated Study of Chicago School of Sociology

这项名为“芝加哥社会学学派的综合研究”的项目旨在通过考察参与建立和发展社会学作为一门学科的芝加哥社会学学派，构建一个分析当代社会问题的社会学基础。作为一组研究者，我们不仅仔细研究了托马斯、帕克和伯吉斯等学者的理论成果，而且还考察了芝加哥的理论与实证研究密切相关的专著，在理论和研究之间架起了一座桥梁。在此基础上，对《集体行为理论谱系学》、《休斯与周围环境》、《芝加哥大学1930年代的量化研究》、《芝加哥学派与日本社会学》等内容进行了论述，以期对芝加哥学派有更深入的了解。除了在日本进行的研究外，调查人员还访问了芝加哥大学社会学系，采访安德鲁·阿博特教授和他的大学同事，了解1998年和1999年那个时候的人类和智力谱系。通过这个项目，有了新的发现，这是到目前为止还不可能的，因为人们已经有了扭曲的形象，即芝加哥学派偏向于定性研究。三名研究人员在2000年关西社会学协会第五十一次会议的“芝加哥学派的传统”研讨会上报告了我们的发现。此外，我们开始通过购买新书和收集那些现已绝版的书籍来收集与芝加哥学派有关的书籍。在项目的最后一年，我们对发现的书籍和信息进行了分类，为早期芝加哥学派列出了书单。

The purpose of the project, 'The Integrated Study of the Chicago School of Sociology', is to construct a sociological basis from which to analyze the issues of contemporary society through the examination of the Chicago School of sociology which took part in establishing and developing sociology as a discipline in the United States. As a group of investigators we not only look closely at the theoretical achievements of scholars such as Thomas, Park, and Burgess, but also examine Chicago monographs in which theory and empirical study relate closely, and built a bridge between theory and research. Based on the knowledge found through these works, we then discuss the subjects include 'The Genealogy of Theories of Collective Behavior', 'Hughes and the Surroundings', 'Quantitative Research of the University of Chicago in the 1930s' and 'The Chicago School and Japanese Sociology' to understand the Chicago School in greater detail. In addition to research done in Japan, investigators visit the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago to interview Professor Andrew Abbott and his university associates about the human and the intellectual genealogy of that time in 1998 and 1999. Through this project, new discoveries have been made which were not possible up until now as people have had the distorted image that the Chicago School is biased towards qualitative research. Three investigators reported on our findings at the symposium 'The Traditions of the Chicago School' at the fifty-first meeting of the Kansai Sociological Association in 2000. Furthermore, we set about making a collection of books related to the Chicago School by purchasing new books and collecting those books now out of print. In the final year of the project, we sorted the books and information found to make a book list for the early Chicago School.