Readings in Urban Sociology

Readings in Urban Sociology covers the specialized aspect of sociology, together with an introduction designed to relate the selected Readings to the state of sociological knowledge and research in the field in question.

This book is organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters, and begins with an overview of the study of urbanization and urban sociology. The opening part describes the nature of industrial urbanism in Great Britain. This part deals with the development of British urban sociology and the idea of neighborhood community. The next part examines the distinction between ways of life in the modern city and the modern suburb. This part also looks into the context of urbanization involving population dispersal and diffusion. The closing parts provide an analysis of the urban system in terms of a conflict model and demonstrate the development of Prague's ecological structure. These parts also discuss the notion of a rural-urban continuum and the process of adjustment to an urban system in Africa.

This book will prove useful to sociologists and researchers.

Contenu

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Perspective on Urban Sociology
Approaches to the Subject
The Socio-Ecological System
Trends in Urban Sociology
Historical and Comparative Approaches to Urbanism
Note
Other References
Part I. The Nature of Industrial Urbanism in Britain
Urban Sociology in Great Britain
The Popularity of the Neighbourhood Community Idea
Part II. Responses to Urbanism
Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life
Myths of American Suburbia
The Pattern of Neighbouring Relations in Dortmund-Nordstadt
Community and Association in a London Housing Estate
Urban Ward Associations in Japan
Part III. Urban Structure and Social Structure
The Sociology of a Zone of Transition
The Development of Prague's Ecological Structure
Part IV. Urbanization
The Rural-Urban Continuum
Migrancy and the Study of Africans in Towns
Biographical Notes