Ernest Burgess wrote books like "The City" and "The Introduction to the Science of Sociology" to help people comprehend Sociology. With his own collaborations with Robert Park, he highly encouraged specialists from all types of social science to work together to on research projects. His own collaborations created highly influential pieces of work like how he collaborated with the government to create government programs to help the elderly. He worked through five decades of the different phases of the development of sociology of Chicago, which of course, he helped sociology evolve.