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Chicago School Themed Sessions
The themed sessions are organized chronologically to correspond to the historical phases of the Chicago School. Thus the first day of the conference focuses on the early Chicago School, with sessions devoted to Robert Park, Nels Anderson, and George Herbert Mead. The second day’s themed sessions focus on selected theorists of the ‘Second’ Chicago School (Everett Hughes, Anselm Strauss, and Herbert Blumer).On the third day are themed session on the seminal work of Erving Goffman in addition to issues in contemporary ethnography.
George K Park (Professor of Anthropology, retired, Memorial University, Canada) The grandson of Robert Park, he is also the author of The Idea of Social Structure (1974), The Flying Armchair: Anthropology to Think With (1990) and The Marke of Power: Helgeland and the Politics of Omnipotence (1998).
Gary Cook (Professor of Philosophy, Beloit University, USA), a noted Mead scholar, recently delivered the 2007 Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Along with numerous journal articles on Mead, he is the author of George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist (1993).
Richard Helmes-Hayes (Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada) focuses on the history of Canadian social thought. With an intellectual biography of John Porter finished and forthcoming, he is now extending his earlier work about Everett C. Hughes, the noted Canadian member of the Second Chicago School, into a monograph. Among his relevant publications are: "The Concept of Social Class: The Contribution of Everett Hughes" (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 36(2) 2000:127-47); "Everett Hughes: Theorist of the Second Chicago School". (International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 11 (4) 1988: 621-73); and "The Sociology of `Going Concerns': Everett Hughes' Interpretive Institutional Ecology". In L. Tomasi, ed., The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1998:217-49.
Gregory Smith (Sociology, University of Salford, UK) is one of the world’s leading experts on the thought of Erving Goffman. His books include: Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists Series) (2006); Erving Goffman, 4 vols, (editor, with G A Fine) (2000); Introducing Cultural Studies (with E. Baldwin, B. Longhurst, S. McCracken, M. Ogborn) (1999, revised 2004); and Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a Sociological Legacy, (editor) (1999).
Robert Stebbins (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada) is the world’s foremost ethnographer of 'serious leisure.' The author of over 30 books, his major publications and ethnographies include Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Out Time (2006); Challenging Mountain Nature: Risk, Motive, and Lifestyle in Three Hobbyist Sports (2005); Volunteering as Leisure/Leisure as Volunteering: An International Assessment (2004); Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure (1992); and The Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style (1990).
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