The Integrated Study of Chicago School of Sociology

“对芝加哥社会学学派的综合研究”项目的目的是通过对参与建立和发展美国社会学学科的芝加哥社会学学派的考察，建立一个分析当代社会问题的社会学基础。作为一个研究小组，我们不仅密切关注托马斯、帕克和伯吉斯等学者的理论成果，而且还考察了理论与实证研究密切相关的芝加哥专著，并在理论与研究之间架起了一座桥梁。在此基础上，我们对“集体行为理论的谱系”、“休斯及其周围”、“1930年代芝加哥大学的定量研究”和“芝加哥学派与日本社会学”等课题进行了讨论，以更详细地了解芝加哥学派。除了在日本进行的研究外，调查人员还于1998年和1999年访问了芝加哥大学社会学系，采访了安德鲁·艾伯特教授及其大学同事，了解当时的人类和知识分子谱系。通过这个项目，新的发现已经取得了不可能的，直到现在，因为人们有一个扭曲的形象，芝加哥学校是偏向于定性研究。在2000年关西社会学会第51届会议的“芝加哥学派的反思”研讨会上，三位研究者报告了我们的研究结果。此外，我们着手收集与芝加哥学校有关的书籍，购买新书，收集那些现已绝版的书籍。在这个项目的最后一年，我们整理了找到的书籍和信息，为早期的芝加哥学校制作了一个书单。

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.