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Urban Life and Society
Edition 1
Harry Gold
0-13-021605-4
Hardback
414 pages
2002
Brief Description
For Urban Sociology, Urban Political Economy, Urban Anthropology, and Urban Studies courses in Departments of Sociology, Urban Studies, Political Science, Urban Planning, Geography, and Public Policy.
Urban Life and Society is a comprehensive and readable overview of the entire field of urban sociology. It provides a very well balanced introduction to all of the major approaches and perspectives. The book pays homage to the traditional “classic” works in the field, while also focusing on some of the most recent theoretical and empirical work available.
Features
NEW - Updated materials - From the perspective of the NEW URBAN SOCIOLOGY, or THE POLITICAL ECOMOMY APPROACH, as it is increasingly coming to be called, are most directly represented in the two separate chapters on urban economic institutions and political institutions, but also material on the new urban sociology approach is integrated into the most relevant sections.
Historical perspective - Provides the reader with a clear picture of the process of urbanization process - past, present, and future: from the first cities to the emergence of the early Egyptian, Greek, Roman civilizations; continuing through urban developments throughout the feudal, medieval, and renaissance periods of European urbanization.
Urban/Industrial Revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Focus on Urban Planning/Design - Includes an entire chapter on the role and scope of urban planning, and a full chapter is devoted to projected future urban trends and issues facing Americas cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas for the first half of the 21st Century.
World Focus - While most of the book is focused on North American cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas, world urbanization and globalization are covered in a single chapter, which also succinctly describes principle world cities in each of the worlds largest continents.
Six major perspectives offer a guiding framework for students - Includes a social change perspective; ecological perspective; social structure perspective; cultural and social-psychological perspective; social problems perspective; and a social policy perspective.
Emphasis on urban social institutions - Unique to this book, urban social institutions are considered within the framework of the social structure perspective. Included are separate chapters on urban economic institutions, urban political institutions, urban welfare and educational institutions, and a chapter on the impact of urbanization on religious and family institutions.
Urban social stratification.
Focus on units larger than the city or the metropolitan area, such as urban regions and societies.
Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND EARLY URBANIZATION.
1. Urban Sociology as a Field of Study.
2. The Origins and Early Development of Cities.
3. The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on City Life.
PART II: BASIC FORMS OF URBAN LIFE IN THE MODERN METROPOLIS.
4. The Metropolitan Revolution.
5. Neighborhoods, Networks, and Associations.
6. Social-Psychological and Cultural Dimensions of Urban Life.
PART III: URBAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
7. Urban Economic Institutions.
8. Urban Political Institutions.
9. Welfare and Education as Emergent Urban Institutions.
10. The Impact of Urbanization on Religion and the Family.
PART IV: PERSISTENT URBAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
11. Urban Patterns of Social Stratification.
12. Urban Crime.
13. Problems of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Urban America.
PART V: URBAN PLANNING, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE URBAN FUTURE.
14. Urban Planning and Development.
15. The Future of American Urban Life and Urban Social Policy.
16. World Urbanization and Globalization.
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