[PDF] Urban Sociology eBook

Author : William G. Flanagan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442201908

GET BOOK

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form, and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, the text focuses on the significance of the more macrological cultural, social organizational, and political dimensions of urban change, in an historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While the work focuses primarily on the North American case, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.

Author : Michael T. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429974035

GET BOOK

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to the student. A thought leader in the field, the book is organized around an integrated paradigm (the sociospatial perspective) which considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. Emphasizing the importance of space to social life and real estate to urban development, the book integrates social, ecological and political economy perspectives and research through a fresh theoretical approach. With its unique perspective, concise history of urban life, clear summary of urban social theory, and attention to the impact of culture on urban development, this book gives students a cohesive conceptual framework for understanding cities and urban life. In this thoroughly revised 5th edition, authors Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison, and Michael T. Ryan offer expanded discussions of created cultures, gentrification, and urban tourism, and have incorporated the most recent work in the field throughout the text. The New Urban Sociology is a necessity for all courses on the subject.

Author : Mark Abrahamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521191505

GET BOOK

Concise overview of the political and economic development of the world's cities, with a cultural perspective and case studies throughout, including support materials.

Author : C.G. Pickvance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135673314

GET BOOK

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available. This book was first published in 1976.

Author : Daniel Joseph Monti
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483315339

GET BOOK

Providing a thorough and comprehensive survey of the contemporary urban world that is accessible to students, Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns will give balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built (i.e., urbanization) and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places (i.e., urbanism) unlike most core texts in this area. Whereas most texts focus on the socio-economic causes of urbanization, this text analyses the cultural component: how the physical construction of places is, in part, a product of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices and also how the culture of those who live, work, and play in various places is shaped, structured, and controlled by the built environment. Inasmuch as the primary focus will be on the United States, global discussion is composed with an eye toward showing how U.S. cities, suburbs, and towns are different and alike from their counterparts in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America

Author : J.R. Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135682208

GET BOOK

Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, the author argues that it is a key element in the response of the 'intellectual proletariat' to urbanization and the calls on it by the State to control the ensuing way of life. The themes of urban sociology have been the concerns of the Welfare State and, despite radical inputs, the discipline has remained tied up with the assumptions and methodological precepts of liberalism. The author's contention is that urbanization should be analysed in the framework of the political economy of regional development. This book was first published in 1977.

Author : Jan Lin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415665302

GET BOOK

This reader draws together seminal selections spanning the subfield from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Contributions from Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells are amongst the 40 selections.

Author : Michael Savage
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333971598

GET BOOK

This second edition of this text on urban sociology takes into account contemporary theoretical debated and empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates developments in the literature on urban inequality, urban culture, urban politics and globalization. It offers a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute account of its subject, ideal for study purposes at undergraduate level and beyond.

Author : William George Flanagan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742561762

GET BOOK

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form, and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, the text focuses on the significance of the more macrological cultural, social organizational, and political dimensions of urban change, in an historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While the work focuses primarily on the North American case, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.