Of Time and Space: The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School

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This essay argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual. It traces these problems to the exhaustion of the current “variables paradigm” and considers the Chicago School's “contextualist paradigm” as an alternative. Examples of new methodologies founded on contextual thinking are considered.

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American Political and Social Dynamics Educational, Social, and Political Issues Social and Cultural Studies

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Published in: Social Forces

Volume 75, Issue 4, pp. 1149-1182

DOI: 10.1093/sf/75.4.1149

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Of Time and Space: The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School

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