Author:
Burgess, E. W. (Ernest Watson), 1886-1966.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1964]
Descriptionxi, 673 p. : maps, diagrs., tables ; 24 cm.
Note:Abridged ed. published in 1967 under title: Urban sociology.
Note:1. Research in urban society: a long view / Ernest W. Burgess, Donald J. Bogue -- Part I. URBAN ECOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY: 2. Variables in urban morphology / Beverly Duncan -- 3. A demographic and ecological study of Rangoon, Burma, 1953 / Richard W. Redick -- 4. Factors in urban fertility differences in the United States / Sultan H. Hashmi -- 5. Trends in differential fertility and mortality in a metropolis, Chicago / Evelyn M. Ktagawa, Philip M. Hauser -- 6. Racial succession and changing property values in residential Chicago / E. Frederick Schietinger -- 7. The areal distribution of tax delinquency in Chacago and its relationship to certain housing and social characteristics / Vera Miller -- 8. The daytime population of the central business district / Gerald Breese -- 9. City size as a sociological variable / William Fielding Ogburn, Otis Dudley Duncan -- 10. Analysis of variance procedures in the study of ecological phenomena / Nathn Keyfitz -- 11. Population redistribution and retail changes in the central business district / Alma F. Taeuber -- 12. Cityward migration, urban ecology, and social theory / Ronald Freedman -- Part II. URBAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND MASS PHENOMENA: 13. The function of voluntary associations in an ethnic community: "Polonia" / Helena Znaniecki Lopata -- 14. Some factors affecting participation in voluntary associations / Herbert Goldhammer -- 15. The city and the primary group / Mmarion Wesley Roper -- 16. Urbanization and the organization of welfare activities inthe metropolitan community in Chicago / Arthur Hillman -- 17. On "street corner society" / William Foote Whyte -- 18. News and the human interest story / Helen MacGill Hughes -- 19. A case study of an urban religious movement: Christian Science / Harold W. Pfautz -- 20. The police: a sociological study of law, custom, and morality / William A. Westley -- 21. Hotel life: physical proximity and social distance / Norman S. Hayner -- Part III. ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS IN URBAN SOCIETY: 22. The marginal man: a study in personality and culture conflict / Everett V. Stonequist -- 23. An approach to the measurement of interracial tension / Shirley A. Star -- 24. Social change and prejudice / Morris Janowitz -- 25. The process of intergroup tension and conflict / S. Frank Miyamoto -- 26. The Negro family in Chicago / E. Franklin Frazier -- 27. A study of urbanism and population structure in a metropolitan community in China / Ernest Ni -- 28. The isolation of the Chinese laundryman / Paul C.P. Siu -- 29. Occupational mobility of Negro professional workers / G. Franklin Edwards -- 30. Differentials in Negro migration to Atlanta / Robert H. Mugge -- 31. Behavior in urban race contacts / Dietrich C. Reitzes -- Part IV. URBAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS: 32. Family disorganization / Ernest R. Mowrer -- 33. Associations between marriage disruption, permissiveness of divorce laws, and selected social variables / Alexander Broel-Plateris -- 34. Catholic family disorganization / John L. Thomas -- 35. The relation of urbanization and urbanism to criminal behavior / Marshall B. Clinard -- 36. Organized crime in Chicago / John Landesco -- 37. The disposition of juvenile arrests by urban police / Nathan Goldman -- 38. The delinquency research of Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay and Associates / abstract prepared by the editors -- 39. Narcotic addiction / Alfred R. Lindesmith -- 40. A study of success and failure of one thousand delinquents committed to a boys' republic / Courtlandt Churchill Van Vechten, Jr. -- 41. Opium addiction: a sociopsychiatric approach / Bingham Dai -- 42. The gang: a study of 1313 gangs in Chicago / Frederic Milton Thrasher.
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