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The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization: Robert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-02877-6. Lal, Barbara Ballis (1987). "Black and Blue in Chicago: Robert E. Park's Perspective on Race Relations in Urban America, 1914–44". The British Journal of Sociology. 38 (4): 546– 566. doi:10.2307/590916.
Race relations is a sociological concept that emerged in Chicago in connection with the work of sociologist Robert E. Park and the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1] Race relations designates a paradigm or field in sociology [ 2 ] and a legal concept in the United Kingdom .
Marginal man or marginal man theory is a sociological concept first developed by sociologists Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944) and Everett Stonequist (1901–1979) to explain how an individual suspended between two cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity. [1] [2] [3]
The book is also significant in its representation of the collaboration between a prominent African-American leader (Washington) and a white sociologist (Park) during a time of heightened racial tensions in the United States. [4] [1] [5] The book begins, "On 20 August, 1910, I sailed from New York City for Liverpool, England. I had been given a ...
Ethnicity theory argues that race is a social category and is only one of several factors in determining ethnicity. Other criteria include "religion, language, 'customs', nationality, and political identification". [60] This theory was put forward by sociologist Robert E. Park in the 1920s. It is based on the notion of "culture".
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This model was later used by Park, Burgess and their students to explain social problems such as crime and unemployment in certain areas of Chicago. [9] The major assumptions of the book, to quote Michael Dear, are: a modernist view of the city as a unified whole, i.e., a coherent regional system in which the center organizes its hinterland;