Robert E. Park
American sociologist of the Chicago School who studied race relations, urbanization, and the city as a social laboratory.
Most quoted
"The process of assimilation is a process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitudes of other persons and groups and, by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology, 1921
"The city is, above all, a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition."
— from The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment, 1915
"The city is a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition."
— from The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment, 1915
All quotes by Robert E. Park (65)
Mobility is the pulse of the city.
The world is a stage, and the city its theater.
Assimilation is not a straight line but a process of give and take.
The ghetto is a product of segregation, not of race.
Human ecology is the study of the spatial and temporal relations of human beings.
News is not fact but a frame of reference.
The crowd is a temporary collection of individuals.
Life in the city is a perpetual struggle for existence.
Racial prejudice is a product of isolation.
The university is a community of scholars.
Migration creates new forms of social organization.
The press is the voice of the community.
Segregation is the pathology of race relations.
The marginal man is a product of cultural conflict.
Cities grow by accretion and succession.
The family is the primary group of society.
Journalism is the art of interpreting the news.
Race is a cultural, not a biological, concept.
The slum is a moral and physical wasteland.
Social control is maintained through communication.
Contemporaries of Robert E. Park
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Robert E. Park (1864–1944).