The Importance Of Urban Sociology

Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. An important aspect of urban sociology is community. Community is an area in which feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals occurs usually where the person resides. There are many inequalities in urban areas even today. One of these areas which inequality still exists is with gender and sexuality. However, as a means to find resonance with other members in the gay and lesbian community, these people find ways to reside in communities with people who are also homosexual. As stated by Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner (2005) Lesbians reside in communities with other lesbians by means of their …show more content…
This book is named The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. In his book, Castells analyzes Gay neighborhoods and the migration of Gay men to these neighborhoods to form a community. Castells argues that Lesbians, unlike Gay men are less concerned with territory and therefore do not form Lesbian communities. Castells also argues that Lesbians are politically different from Gay men as they are focused on equality issues than they are of institutional power in the Lesbian world. Adler and Brenner decided to recreate Castells research in the case of Lesbians and noticed that many Lesbian women do tend to live in close proximity to one another. Many Lesbians are found to be poor therefore; they are often living in ethnically mixed, working class areas with low …show more content…
Donham we analyze the struggles of gay men especially those of color in South Africa before apartheid. We learn of a man named Linda, Linda died in 1993 of AIDS in Soweto, South Africa. Linda was a founding member of a Gay and Lesbian organization called GLOW. Linda’s funeral was unlike one you would normally imagine. It included an abundance of people from all different areas. Many of these people attending the funeral were gay or lesbian or identified as a “third gender” called skesanas. At one time men used to dominate other men and name them their “wives” they used them as sex slaves. Eventually this came to a halt as people now identified this as a homosexual act and started to classify the people partaking in these actions as gay. This was not something you wanted to be in South Africa. It was better to be a skesana identifying as something other than male making the act something other than