Ernest Burgess
Ernest Watson Burgess (born May 16, 1886 in Tilbury , Ontario , † December 27, 1966 ) was a Canadian sociologist. He represented the socio-ecological Chicago School of Sociology, which developed urban sociology in the USA in the 1920s . He was the 24th president of the American Sociological Association .
research
Burgess and Roderick Duncan McKenzie developed ideas from their socio-ecological urban research on how the structures of animal and plant ecology can be transferred to human societies. They are based on an absolutist spatial concept in which the space represents a size separate from human activity. The basic idea was that humans have to adapt to their natural environment. This happens within specific social communities in limited territories, such as neighborhoods or city districts. The design of the areas or territories is based on the formation of homogeneous communities - caused by pressure to adapt - which are characterized by a. Class and ethnicity. Louis Wirth's concept of the city is largely based on Burgess' research.
Based on his investigations, Burgess and his colleague Robert Ezra Park developed the zone model / ring model in 1925 . This city model is intended to illustrate the social structure of a city using the example of Chicago .
Fonts (selection)
- Ernest W. Burgess, Robert E. Park : Introduction to Science of the Sociology . 1921, ISBN 0-8371-2356-9 ( archive.org ).
- Ernest W. Burgess, Robert E. Park, Roderick D. McKenzie (Eds.): The City . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1925, ISBN 0-226-64611-4 .
- Contributions to Urban Sociology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1964, ISBN 978-0-226-08055-0 .
- The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution. HardPress Publishing 2013, ISBN 978-1-313-46819-0 .
- Personality and the Social Group. Forgotten Books, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-330-29705-6 .
See also
Web links
- Ernest W. Burgess , American Sociological Association (English)
- Literature by and about Ernest Burgess in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgess, Ernest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burgess, Ernest Watson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilbury , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1966 |