Urban sociology

This model was founded on the idea in which, “crime is a product of transitional neighborhoods that manifest social disorganization and value conflict” (Shaw & McKay, Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas, p.52). The concentric zone model originally pioneered by Burgess, allowed Shaw & McKay to boost their ideas multiple steps forward, allowing them to point out a reason and also map out their social disorganization theory. “Burgess and his students…

Robert Ezra Park spent a considerable amount of time during his career, as a journalist and later a social scientist, observing the strife urban communities, especial with regards to policing urban communities. This work is foundational to helping Park form his theories in human ecology and urban cultural systems (Mutchnick et al, 1990). Park’s work emphasizing urban group culture in forming his social disorganization theory has strikingly familiar similarities to Quinney’s social control…

By drawing readers’ attention to previously neglected area of research, these scholars enrich the scholarship of urban sociology and inequality. However, Small’s discussion of how exactly inequality is enacted or mediated through organizationally embedded and contextualized networks and interaction is minimal. Further theoretical development and incorporation of existing…

Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were both important figures in the creation of sociology. Karl Marx created the Conflict Theory and wrote The Communist Manifesto. There are some key ideas for Marx’s theory. He argued that everything is about class conflict. The bourgeoisie, or capitalists, were the class that paid the proletariat, or workers, and often took advantage of them. He claimed that the proletariat all experienced a thing called the false consciousness, where they didn’t realize how…

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in 2003. He obtained his MA in Urban Sociology at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Mina Gerais in 2009 and he just defended his PhD on History of Religion at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. For his Ph.D. studies Dr. Leonel had the opportunity to do research at the University of Georgetown in DC in the Fall of 2013 and was an audit researcher student to one class of an expert sociologist in the sociology of religion, Professor Jose…

effects of global economy, transition from representative democracy to pluralistic and participatory democracy have influenced urban systems and traditional planning approaches have not been able to come up with the solutions to problems that arise in the new urban systems. (Hillier, 2008) . Berke & Conroy (2000) mentioned that the concept of sustainability plays…

Zwia Lipkin’s book investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing through demonstrating how the Nationalist government managed various social problems in the city and the continuous effort to create the desired model of a “modern” national capital between 1927-1937. Lipkin recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the new capital by eliminating various social problems including refugees, shantytowns, rickshaw pullers, prostitutes and beggars in the city in…

Slum dogs The first concept from the book that I am going to link to this video is the term ‘socialization’. In the book, this means, the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group-the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions though appropriate for them (Henslin 67). I chose this concept for multiple reasons. One reason I chose this concept is because in the city Dharavi they are over populated with 1,000,000 people in a square mile. This means that they…

Issues of social disorder are more likely to involve youth. They are mainly committed by young people. We will be discussing three social disorders, graffiti, youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence. It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system. Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space. A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental…

It is followed by the mass migration of people to urban areas from rural areas,which is their home land. They are not belonging to anywhere. In Indian scenario the footloose plebians which includes women and men, children and adults, whose existence is in a circulatory mode and they were moved to lowest strata of labor system. They are not amalgamated and hence incapable to defy oppressive working condition. They are inwardly divided by the acute competition for the available work…