Rereading The Jack-Roller
Abstract
I revisit one of the iconic Chicago School studies, Clifford Shaw’s The Jack-Roller. A naive reading of Shaw’s book leaves the reader with a sense of having been inducted into a mélange of what we now know as “sociology” and “social work,” but which to Shaw seems a coherent stance. I suggest that this is close to the heart of how things were, and not a temporary distortion in the distinct histories of sociology and social work. I develop and...
Paper Details
Title
Rereading The Jack-Roller
Published Date
May 8, 2009
Journal
Volume
15
Issue
7
Pages
1241 - 1264
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