Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Chicago School as Symbol and Enactment 3
4. (Re)Visiting the Chicago School(s)
5. Hull-House and the Chicago Schools of Sociology: Public and Liberation Sociology on Race, Class, Gender, and Peace, 1892–1920 29
6. Was There a Black Chicago School? 47
7. Chicago’s Proclivity to Qualitative Sociology: Myth or Reality? 61
8. After the Barren Search for Laws 79
9. Mead and Goffman: Key Thinkers of the Chicago School Diaspora
10. Finding G.H. Mead’s Social Ontology in His Engagement with Key Intellectual Influences 93
11. Mending Mead’s “I” and “Me” Distinction 110
12. Working the Chicago Interstices: Warner and Goffman’s Intellectual Formation 126
13. Reading Goffman: On the Creation of an Enigmatic Founder 150
14. The Chicago School Diaspora: Urban Ecology
15. Nels Anderson and the Chicago School of Urban Sociology 169
16. Flop Houses, Fancy Hotels, and “Second–Rate Bohemia”: Zorbaugh’s The Gold Coast and the Slum and the Gentrification Debate 178
17. Urban Sociology in Poor Cities of Africa and the Middle East: A New Methodology Inspired by Robert E. Park’s Urban Ecological Approach 199
18. Tourist Zones, Emotional Buttons, and the Ubiquitous Beggar 210
19. Constructions of Public and Private Spheres in the Soviet Communal Apartment: Erving Goffman’s Notion of Territories of Self 223
20. Urban Imagery, Tourism, and the Future of New Orleans 238
21. The Chicago School Diaspora: Boundaries, Constructions, and Claims
22. Hassidim Confronting Modernity 255
23. What Is “Genius” in Arts and “Brain Drain” in Life Science? 272
24. Situating The Hobo: Romancing the Road from Vagabondia to Hobohemia 287
25. Constructing Stockholm Syndrome: A Definitional History 307
26. The Chicago School Diaspora: New Directions
27. Aristotle’s Theory of Education: Enduring Lessons in Pragmatist Scholarship 325
28. Symbolic Interaction and Organizational Leadership: From Theory to Practice in University Settings 344
29. The Emperor Has No Clothes: Waning Idealism and the Professionalization of Sociologists 357
30. Formal Grounded Theory, the Serious Leisure Perspective, and Positive Sociology 366
31. Contributors 381
32. Index 385