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Course Description

From the time of Jane Addams and the pioneering works of Park, Burgess and Wirth of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, there have been numerous attempts to analyze and explain the significance of Chicago’s diversity, its social problems and challenges facing the neighborhoods. This course will read some of the more important works from the “Chicago School” including Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House; Park and Burgess, The City; and more recent works by Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged; Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day; or by Robert Sampson, the Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.

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