The Integrated Study of Chicago School of Sociology

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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.