List of Illustrations ix // List of Tables xi // Preface xiii // Acknowledgments xvii // The Significance of the Chicago School of Sociology 1 // Chicago: The City and Its University 12 // The Establishment of the Social Sciences 28 // The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A 45 // Landmark of Empirical Sociology // Sociology, the Social Survey Movement, and 64 // The Negro in Chicago // The Development of Field Research Methods 89 // The Organization of Sociology by Park and Burgess 109 // The Local Community Research Committee, 1923-30 129 // The Development of Quantitative Methods in the 151 // Early 1920s // Quantitative Methods in the Later 1920s 172 // The Chicago Manifold 190 // The Conditions of Creativity 208 // A Note on Documentary Sources 225 // Notes 229 // Index 275