During that time, he was heavily influenced by sociologists from the Chicago School of Sociology.<ref name=chicagoschool>[http://fib.unair.ac.id/jdownloads/Materi%20Kuliah/Sastra%20Inggris/Dra.%20Nur%20Wulan/the_chicago_school.pdf Saul D. Alinsky and the Chicago School]</ref> As a student, the two professors who had a most profound impact on him were Ernest Watson Burgess and Robert Ezra Park. Park in particular would become Alinsky's favorite professor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_i-7AAAAIAAJ&dq=favorite+professor&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=favorite+professor The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky]</ref> Later as a graduate student, he would be influenced by the work of another University of Chicago sociologist, Clifford Shaw.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HdrHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing]</ref> | During that time, he was heavily influenced by sociologists from the Chicago School of Sociology.<ref name=chicagoschool>[http://fib.unair.ac.id/jdownloads/Materi%20Kuliah/Sastra%20Inggris/Dra.%20Nur%20Wulan/the_chicago_school.pdf Saul D. Alinsky and the Chicago School]</ref> As a student, the two professors who had a most profound impact on him were Ernest Watson Burgess and Robert Ezra Park. Park in particular would become Alinsky's favorite professor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_i-7AAAAIAAJ&dq=favorite+professor&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=favorite+professor The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky]</ref> Later as a graduate student, he would be influenced by the work of another University of Chicago sociologist, Clifford Shaw.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HdrHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing]</ref> |