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Louis Wirth was a German-born American sociologist associated with the Chicago School and the study of urban life, migration, and minority groups. His influential 1938 essay Urbanism as a Way of Life described the city through its large population, high density, and social heterogeneity, linking those conditions to impersonal and specialized relationships. He also wrote The Ghetto, a study of Jewish settlement and social organization.
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Louis Wirth ranks #82 of 245 in the Sociologist ranking, behind Charles Perrow, ahead of Thomas Luckmann.
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