From Chicago to Bologna: The Persistent Importance of the Chicago School in American and Italian Urban Sociology

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Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI:10.1108/s1047-004220190000016002

G. Manella

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The aim of this chapter is to consider the importance of the Chicago School in urban sociology today, both theoretically and methodologically. I will start by showing some indicators and reflections on its importance in American urban sociology. I will then focus on how this heritage has been used and adapted in Italy. In particular, I will present some theoretical and empirical studies implemented in the Bologna metropolitan area by a group of sociologists who, in the Italian context are probably using the Chicago School tools to study urban change and urban problems most explicitly. My contribution is based on bibliographic research carried out both in Italy and in the United States, as well as on some interviews conducted with American urban sociologists. The main findings show the persistent importance of several key elements of the Chicago School, both in Italy and in the United States: the general theoretical approach (space and place affect people), some specific concepts (community, neighborhood, and natural area), and methodology (combination of qualitative and quantitative tools).

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从芝加哥到博洛尼亚:芝加哥学派在美国和意大利城市社会学中的持续重要性

本章的目的是考虑芝加哥学派在今天的城市社会学中的重要性，从理论上和方法上。我将首先展示其在美国城市社会学中的重要性的一些指标和反思。然后，我将重点介绍这些遗产是如何在意大利被使用和改编的。特别是，我将介绍一些由一群社会学家在博洛尼亚大都市区实施的理论和实证研究，他们在意大利的背景下可能使用芝加哥学派的工具来最明确地研究城市变化和城市问题。我的贡献是基于在意大利和美国进行的书目研究，以及对美国城市社会学家的一些采访。主要研究结果表明，芝加哥学派的几个关键要素在意大利和美国都具有持续的重要性:一般理论方法(空间和地点影响人)，一些具体概念(社区、邻里和自然区域)和方法论(定性和定量工具的结合)。

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期刊介绍： Proposed by Italo Pardo, Urbanities was founded in 2011 by a group of anthropologists and sociologists under the chair of Giuliana B. Prato and is edited by a Social Anthropologist ─ Italo Pardo ─ and a Sociologist ─ Jerome Krase. Urbanities has established a partnership with the International Urban Symposium (IUS) and the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA). The journal’s scope is to provide a forum for debate on issues of scientific and public interest worldwide. It aims at providing the scientific community and the general public with up-to-date news on urban research and its relevance in understanding the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental changes of today’s world. Urbanities is an open-access international peer-reviewed academic journal. The Editorial and Scientific Boards reflect the journal’s aims and broad ethnographic spread, and include international scholars of high calibre who specialize in different ethnographic, theoretical and disciplinary fields. Urbanities aims at publishing original articles by established and younger scholars, at exploring new trends and debates in Urban Ethnography that promote critical scholarship and at highlighting the contribution of urban research to the broader society. Committed to promoting cross-disciplinary debate, Urbanities welcomes contributions on research at the forefront of disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, including Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, History, Political Sciences, Economics, Architecture, Archaeology. Articles published in the journal are ethnographically based and address theoretical, methodological or public issues concerning all aspects of urban research.