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The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is composed of an undergraduate college and four graduate research divisions, including a Social Sciences Division, and it operates professional schools in business, social work, theology, public policy, law, medicine and molecular engineering. Its scholars played a role in developing many academic disciplines, among them sociology and political science, and they established the Chicago schools of thought in several fields.

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The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, UChi, or U of C) is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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    The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, UChi, or U of C) is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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    is a private research university
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Wikipedia: Erving Goffman
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Later he moved to the University of Chicago, where he received an MA (1949) and PhD (1953) in sociology.
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Wikipedia: Victor Turner
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As a professor at the University of Chicago in the late 1950s, Turner began to apply his study of rituals and rites of passage to world religions and the lives of religious heroes.
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C. Wright Mills (Wikipedia)
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In 1949, Mills and Harper moved to Chicago so that Mills could serve as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.
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William Julius Wilson (Wikipedia)
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After receiving a PhD from Washington State University in 1966, Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972.
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Robert E. Park (Wikipedia)
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After Tuskegee, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1914 to 1933, where he played a leading role in the development of the Chicago School of sociology.
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Marshall Sahlins (Wikipedia)
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Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. == Life == Sahlins was born in Chicago, the son of Bertha (Skud) and Paul A.
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Sherry Ortner - Wikipedia
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She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1962 and went on to study anthropology at the University of Chicago, where she received her M.A. in 1966, and her Ph.D. in 1970.
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David Graeber (Wikipedia)
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Born in New York City to a working-class family, Graeber studied at Purchase College and the University of Chicago, where he conducted ethnographic research in Madagascar under Marshall Sahlins and obtained his doctorate in 1996.
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Herbert Blumer (Wikipedia)
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Upon completing his doctorate in 1928, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Chicago, where he continued his own research under Mead and became captivated with the prospects of examining the interactions between humans and the world.
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Howard S. Becker (Wikipedia)
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At the University of Chicago, Becker was taught in the tradition of the original Chicago School of Sociology.
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Louis Wirth (Wikipedia)
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He was appointed at Tulane University over the period 1928-1929, but returned to University of Chicago after that.
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Michael Burawoy (Wikipedia)
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Completing a master's degree at the University of Zambia in 1972, Burawoy enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, finishing a sociology dissertation with an ethnography of Chicago industrial workers, later to become Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.
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Wikipedia: Arjun Appadurai
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He is the former professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, Humanities Dean at the University of Chicago, director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at The New School, and professor of education and human development studies at New York University's Steinhardt School.
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Wikipedia: Edward Sapir
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When the University of Chicago offered him a position, he happily accepted.
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Wikipedia: Daniel Bell
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In the late 1940s, Bell was an instructor in the Social Sciences in the college of the University of Chicago.
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Wikipedia: Robert Redfield
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He was associated with the University of Chicago for his entire career: all of his higher education took place there, and he joined the faculty in 1927 and remained there until his death in 1958, serving as Dean of Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946.
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Wikipedia: Johannes Fabian
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His experiences in Austria led him to study anthropology in Munich, before undertaking a master's degree (1965) and PhD (1969) at the University of Chicago.
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Wikipedia: Thorstein Veblen
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With the help of Professor Laughlin, who was moving to the University of Chicago, Veblen became a fellow at that university in 1892.
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Wikipedia: Lewis A. Coser
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Coser first taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California.
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Wikipedia: Anselm Strauss
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In 1952, Strauss returned to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor.
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William Foote Whyte (Wikipedia)
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Rehabilitation was only partially successful; Whyte walked with a cane for the rest of his life, and used two arm crutches in his later years. == Professional career == He briefly returned to the University of Chicago in 1944, then joined the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1948, remaining at Cornell for the remainder of his career.
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Wikipedia: Nancy Munn
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In 1976 she began an appointment at the University of Chicago, where she was the first woman in the anthropology department to be a tenured professor.
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Herbert Gans (Wikipedia)
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He trained in sociology at the University of Chicago, where he studied with David Riesman and Everett Hughes, among others, and in social planning at the University of Pennsylvania, where his dissertation was supervised by Martin Meyerson.
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Mitchell Duneier (Wikipedia)
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Duneier earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1992.
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Wikipedia: W. Richard Scott
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Scott and Hildegarde Hewil, Scott received his PhD from the University of Chicago under Peter Blau, and has received honorary doctorates from the Copenhagen School of Business (2000), the Helsinki School of Economics and Business (2001), and Aarhus University in Denmark (2010).
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Wikipedia: William H. Sewell Jr.
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Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago. == Family == Sewell is the son of William H.
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Wikipedia: Ronald Stuart Burt
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Harper Leadership Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a distinguished professor at Bocconi University.
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Wikipedia: Maurice Halbwachs
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He remained in this position for over a decade, taking leave for a year in 1930 as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, when he was called to the Sorbonne in 1935.
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Max Horkheimer (Wikipedia)
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He returned to the United States in 1954 and 1959 to lecture as a frequent visiting professor at the University of Chicago. === Personal life and death === Max and Maidon married in 1926 and remained together until her death in 1969.
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Jon Elster (Wikipedia)
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He has previously taught at the University of Paris, the University of Oslo, and the University of Chicago, where he became professor of political science in 1984.
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Nancy Hartsock (Wikipedia)
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After finishing college, Hartsock went to get her master's degree from the University of Chicago.
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Robert J. Sampson (Wikipedia)
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He then went on to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Criminal Justice from University at Albany, SUNY in 1983. == Career == Sampson taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984 to 1991 before moving to the University of Chicago where he taught in the Department of Sociology from 1991 to 2003.
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Gopal Balakrishnan (Wikipedia)
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In 2001 he joined the University of Chicago faculty, where he taught until 2005.
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Everett C. Hughes (Wikipedia)
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In 1923 he enrolled in the University of Chicago Department of Sociology and Anthropology, but continued working as public park director, a job that again put him in contact with immigrant communities (Chapoulie 1996).
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Albion Woodbury Small (Wikipedia)
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In 1892 he founded the first department of sociology at the University of Chicago.
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Edwin Sutherland (Wikipedia)
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Sutherland earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1913.
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William Fielding Ogburn (Wikipedia)
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when he became chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago.
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Charles A. Ellwood (Wikipedia)
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After graduating from Cornell in 1896, he joined University of Chicago where graduated with a PhD in sociology and philosophy in 1899.
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Emory S. Bogardus (Wikipedia)
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He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1911.
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Frederic Thrasher (Wikipedia)
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was a sociologist at the University of Chicago.
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W. Lloyd Warner (Wikipedia)
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In 1935, he was appointed professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Chicago
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Howard P. Becker (Wikipedia)
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He earned his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, and completed a master's and doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago.
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John Dewey (Wikipedia)
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In 1894, Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago (1894-1904)
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Charles S. Johnson (Wikipedia)
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he resumed graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in sociology
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Carle C. Zimmerman (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Carle C. Zimmerman, Life and career, Chicago
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began taking classes at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Robert E. Park and Ellsworth Faris for a semester in the summer.
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Ellsworth Faris (Wikipedia)
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Faris was chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Chicago
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Luther L. Bernard (Wikipedia)
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Bernard studied at the University of Missouri and at the University of Chicago
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Edward C. Hayes (Wikipedia)
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In 1899 he enrolled at the University of Chicago to study philosophy but soon began to study sociology.
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Annie Marion MacLean (Wikipedia)
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MacLean was the first woman to receive a master's degree in sociology (in 1897), and the second to receive a Ph.D. (in 1900), both from the University of Chicago.
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Charles Richmond Henderson (Wikipedia)
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he took an appointment as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago
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