Chicago School of Sociology
| The first university department of sociology. It was founded in 1892, under Albion Small (1854–1926) at the University of Chicago, Illinois. The establishment of the Chicago School helped legitimize sociology as an academic field. |
| Small was succeeded by urban sociologist Robert E Park (1864–1944), who, with noted sociologists W I Thomas (1863–1947), Ernest Burgess (1886–1966), Louis Wirth (1897–1952), and Roderick McKenzie (1885–1940), created a centre for the social sciences in the 1920s and 1930s, studying urban life, including crime and deviance in Chicago, with its variety of urban communities, lifestyles, and ethnic subcultures. |
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