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The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism

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  1. Dennis Smith
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Chicago Tradition and its Critics

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 1-28

  3. Dimensions of Liberalism

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 29-56

  4. Making America Work

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 57-74

  5. Albion Small

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 75-91

  6. W. I. Thomas

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 92-110

  7. Robert Park

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 111-133

  8. From Park to Parsons

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 134-152

  9. Louis Wirth

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 153-166

  10. William Ogburn

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 167-183

  11. Morris Janowitz

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 184-210

  12. Is Our Republic to Fail?

    • Dennis Smith
    Pages 211-220

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 221-245
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About this book

The Chicago School of Sociology has sometimes been applauded for the originality and special insights of its practitioners as pioneers of a new professional discipline. By contrast, this book emphasises the rootedness of the Chicago School within a well-established tradition of American liberalism. Through a series of critical expositions of its leading writers ranging from Albion Small to Morris Janowitz, Dennis Smith argues that both the strengths and the weaknesses of Chicago Sociology have derived from tensions within and between American capitalism and American liberalism. The distinctive social and intellectual character of American liberal capitalism as expressed in Chicago Sociology is explored with reference to contemporaries in Chicago such as Veblen and Dewey and European movements such as the Frankfurt School.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism

  • Authors: Dennis Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19031-7

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 245

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Sociological Theory

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