Robert E. Park | Sociologist 

1864-1944

Robert Park began his career as a reporter for newspapers in Minneapolis, Detroit, Denver, New York, and Chicago, an encounter with journalism that influenced his later work in sociology. Park believed that a sociologist was “a kind of super reporter, like the men who write for Fortune …reporting on the long-term trends which record what is actually going on rather than what, on the surface, merely seems to be going on.”