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  1. Dec 28, 2012 · The Chicago School gave voice to the idea that media and communication have a central role to play in shaping individual and collective lives, and in cementing identities and communities.

    • Karin Wahl‐Jorgensen
    • 2012
  2. The Chicago school is best known for its urban sociology and for the development of the symbolic interactionist approach, notably through the work of Herbert Blumer. It has focused on human behavior as shaped by social structures and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic and personal characteristics.

  3. The Chicago School of Sociology was founded in 1892 by Albion Small. Small has consistently been described as a discipline-builder and administrator rather than a necessarily a strikingly original thinker in his own right (e.g. Smith, 1988, Bulmer, 1984). He not only

  4. Jul 8, 2016 · In 1890, they founded the Columbia School of Oratory, taking the name from the upcoming World’s Columbian Exposition, which would be the largest public attraction the world had ever seen. The gigantic fair’s opening day wasn’t until 1893, but with three years to go, Chicago was already preparing.

  5. Sep 24, 2020 · After World War II, Schramm moved to the University of Illinois and founded the Institute of Communications Research in 1947 and its sister institute at Stanford University in 1956. He is often credited as being the modern father of communication study.

  6. Chicago School. Though not yet named as such, media studies' roots are in the Chicago School and thinkers such as John Dewey, Charles Cooley and George Mead. These authors saw American society on the cusp of positive social change toward pure democracy.

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  8. Dec 1, 2012 · The Chicago School gave voice to the idea that media and communication have a central role to play in shaping individual and collective lives, and in cementing identities and communities.