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)
The Negro in America is a problem in assimilation.
Ecology studies the competition for space.
The city fosters individualism and anonymity.
Prejudice dies hard, but contact softens it.
The public is an abstraction created by the press.
Urban life is a mosaic of cultures.
Migration is the mother of cities.
The role of the sociologist is to observe and interpret.
Racial conflict arises from competition.
The community evolves through interaction.
News shapes public opinion like clay.
The marginal personality is torn between worlds.
Cities are laboratories for social experiments.
Assimilation requires mutual accommodation.
The ghetto perpetuates itself through isolation.
Human behavior is influenced by environment.
Life's meaning is found in community.
Sociology is the science of collective behavior.
The press amplifies the voices of the marginalized.
Urban growth is organic, not planned.
Contemporaries of Robert E. Park
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Robert E. Park (1864–1944).