author
E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
1886–1966
A pioneering sociologist of city life and family relationships, this University of Chicago scholar helped shape how modern readers understand neighborhoods, social change, and everyday urban experience. His books brought academic sociology to a wide audience and remained influential for decades.
2 Audiobooks
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
The city
by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess, Roderick Duncan McKenzie
About the author
Born in Tilbury, Ontario, on May 16, 1886, and raised largely in the United States, Ernest Watson Burgess became one of the central figures in early twentieth-century sociology. He studied at Kingfisher College and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he went on to build a long academic career.
Burgess is especially known for his work on urban sociology and for studying the family as a social unit. With Robert E. Park, he coauthored Introduction to the Science of Sociology in 1921, an important textbook for the field, and he also helped develop influential ideas about how cities grow and change.
He spent most of his professional life at the University of Chicago and later served as president of the American Sociological Association. Reliable sources found for this overview focus on his scholarship and public career, and they confirm his death in Chicago on December 27, 1966. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the pages retrieved during this search.