Roderick Duncan McKenzie
Roderick Duncan McKenzie (born February 3, 1885 in Carman , Manitoba ; † May 6, 1940 ) was a Canadian sociologist who is one of the representatives of the Chicago School of Sociology .
After studying and briefly teaching at the University of Manitoba , McKenzie moved to the University of Chicago in 1913 , where he studied sociology and received his doctorate in 1920 with a dissertation in urban sociology . In 1925 he edited the programmatic anthology on urban sociology of the Chicago School together with Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess .
McKenzie has taught as a professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the University of Michigan . With his derivations from botany he is one of the founders of social ecology .
Web links
- Online biography: Roderick D. McKenzie , Faculty History Project, University of Michigan
- Literature by and about Roderick Duncan McKenzie in the WorldCat bibliographic database .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roderick Duncan McKenzie: The neighborhood. A study of local life in the city of Columbus, Ohio , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923.
- ^ Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, Roderick McKenzie: The City , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925.
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SURNAME | McKenzie, Roderick Duncan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacKenzie, Roderick D .; MacKenzie, RD |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian sociologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Carman , Manitoba |
DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1940 |