Urban sociology

Sociology Makes the World Go Around In college you’re forced to make many scary, life altering decisions very quickly. You are expected to choose a major in order to get a degree. The major you choose sets the path for the rest of your academic life and affects your career options in the future. This can be a very stressful time in any college students life, this is why it’s important to choose a major that opens up many different career paths. Amongst the many majors to choose from, sociology…

the overall contribution of Durkheim’s approach to sociology as a discipline, such as introducing the possibility of studying suicide from sociological perspective or boosting the usage of statistical data and analysis in sociology. So as much as the criticisms are valuable and clearly show some inherent mistakes in Durkheim’s approach, Durkheim was retrospectively very important figure in sociology that himself enhanced the development of sociology and also inspired many others that enabled the…

associate professor and director in the Sociology of Education program at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Anthony Chen is the associate professor in the Sociology and Institute for Policy Research program at Northwestern University. His interest in American political development was what prompted him to co-write an article on affirmative action with Stulberg. The article appeared in the American Sociology Association and was issued by SAGE…

In the midst of completing his graduate studies in Sociology, Sudhir Venkatesh happens upon a character known as J.T. and the Black Knights, his gang, in the Robert Taylor housing complex of Chicago. Interested in the causes and effects of urban poverty, Venkatesh befriends J.T. and shadows him and his crack-cocaine producing gang throughout and beyond their base. Going where no police officer dared to go, Venkatesh described in detail his multi-year escapade including his experience as Gang…

Urban sprawl is an inattentive issue that continues to harm the future of the world, unless the problem is addressed. The concept of urban sprawl is the “uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions” (“Urban Sprawl”). Across the globe, there has been urban sprawl in major cities, without consideration of future consequences. As society focal point is on celebrities and fashion, the focus on the destruction of the environment is not being acknowledged. The sprawl leaves…

social structures. Sociology can be so broad and the subject matter is diverse; ranging from crime to religion, from family to the state, from the divisions of race and so much more. Most importantly it helps explain important matters in our personal lives, our communities, and the world. A sociology instructor at Kingsborough community college, located in Brooklyn New York, decided to incorporate students’ everyday life experiences into the classroom in an introduction to sociology course.…

When it came to studying urban sociology William Julius Wilson coin the term “underclass”, which was to label the black urban poor. In addition, it conceptualized the urban black poor with crime, joblessness, and uncontrolled sexuality. Williams mentions how urban poverty was a result of three factors such as economic restructuring, industrial decentralization, and residential mobility. William problem was that he tried to exclude the factor of race and the barriers it caused. William wanted to…

Project 1 For this project, I decided to do research on American sociologist, W.E.B Dubois, and American teacher of Latino studies, Julian Samora. I chose W.E.B Dubois because he was one of the first to influence sociology by performing exploratory research in African American communities during the time period of the civil rights movement. I also choose to write about Julian Samora because I found the topics of his research on Mexican Americans interesting. William Edward Burghardt Dubois was…

Jane Addams is an early leader in woman’s suffrage and a pioneer settlement worker in social reform in the United States. She is an exceptional woman who advanced the welfare of working class for adults and children, by political advocacy and by providing practical opportunities. She wanted to help immigrants with education and to have a better life in the city. She believed that women should make their voices heard in legislation and should have the right to vote. Addams studied the effects of…

Excessive Planning in the Urban Future: Obstacles to Urban Utopia The utopian-style planning of the urban future has embraced principle, and abandoned practicality. In order to form utopian cities, the planners of urban areas like Brasília and Delhi proposed detailed urban plans that have mostly ignored market factors in favor of heightened urban regulations. In the case of Brasília, these regulations, designed to further the city’s utopian conception, have actually had the opposite effect.…