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LIFE Park was born in Harveyville, Pennsylvania , and grew up in Minnesota . He was educated at the University Of Michigan , where he was taught by the Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey . His concern for social issues, and especially issues related to race in the cities, led him to become a Journalist in Chicago . He began working for a M.A. at Harvard University in 1898, and was taught by another prominent pragmatist philosopher, William James . After graduation, he went to Germany , where he took his Doctorate , studying with the philosopher Wilhelm Windelband , and attending lectures by the sociologist Georg Simmel . Park went on to teach at Harvard, until Booker T. Washington invited him to the Tuskegee Institute to work on racial issues in the southern U.S. He joined the Department of Sociology at the University Of Chicago in 1914, staying there until his retirement in 1936. He continued teaching until his death, however, at Fisk University . Park died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of seventy-nine. During his lifetime Park became a well-known figure both within and outside the academic world. At various times he was president of the American Sociology Society and of the Chicago Urban League , and was a member of the Social Science Research Council . WORK Park was influential in developing the theory of Assimilation as it pertained to immigrants in the United States. He argued that there were four steps to the Race Relations Cycle in the story of the immigrant. The first was competition, caused by market forces. Next was a realization of this, which led led to conflict, step two. In the third step each group would accommodate each other. Finally, when this failed, the immigrant group would learn to assimilate. During Park's time at the University of Chicago, its sociology department began to use the city that surrounded it as a sort of research laboratory. His work – together with that of his Chicago colleagues, such as Ernest Burgess , Homer Hoyt , and Louis Wirth – developed into an approach to urban sociology that became known as the Chicago School. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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