The Applicability of the Chicago School of Sociology in the Contemporary Society

芝加哥社会学学派是社会学领域最重要的学术派别之一，自世纪初以来，它参与了美国社会学学科的建立和发展。我们的研究项目“芝加哥学派社会学在当代社会中的适用性”的目的是通过对芝加哥学派社会学的广泛考察，构建一个有效的社会学视角，分析当代社会的社会现象。我们的研究内容主要有：（1）芝加哥学派社会学的理论与方法的全貌;（2）芝加哥学派方法论在艺术、职业、犯罪等研究领域的适用性;以及主观资料分析、叙事分析等现代社会学方法与芝加哥学派的关联性;（3）芝加哥学派的思想基础;（4）芝加哥学派的专著特色，特别是在社区、种族和越轨方面的特色;（5）运用芝加哥学派的研究方法和理论分析当代日本社会的社会现象，认为芝加哥学派的社会学为现代社会学重新确立其在社会中的学术地位和实践地位，解决当代社会问题提供了一条线索。

The Chicago School of Sociology is one of the most important academic cliques in sociology, which has taken part in establishing and developing sociology as a discipline in the United States since the early 20th century. The purpose of our research project, 'The Applicability of the Chicago School of Sociology in the Contemporary Society', is to construct an effective sociological perspective and to analyze the social phenomena of contemporary society through the extensive examination of the Chicago school of sociology.The main contents of our research are as follows : (1) the whole picture of the Chicago school of sociology which consisted of various theories and methodologies, (2) the applicability of methodology of the Chicago school to the research fields such as art, profession and delinquency, and the relevance of the modern sociological methods such as subjective data analysis and narrative analysis to the Chicago school, (3) the schools of thoughts on which the Chicago school was grounded, (4) the features of monographs by the Chicago school, especially in the areas of community, ethnicity and deviance, (5) the application of the methods and theories of the Chicago works to social phenomena of contemporary Japanese society.It can be concluded that the Chicago school of sociology gives the modern sociology a clue to reestablish its academic and practical position in society and to solve the contemporary social problems.