what is the central question of social urban goegraphy?
what are the social implications of urbanism and urbanization after the industrialization?
why is the central question of social urban geography so important?
- Deterministic views of the city: places of diversity and individualism
- In urbanized societies primary relationships are less sustained (friends and family)
- Social differentiations leads to weak social cohesion
- Tönnies (1889): Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaf (society)
what does gemeinschaft mean?
community
what does gesellschaf mean?
society
what are characteristics of the community?
rural
small scale
personal and informal
simple, low division of labour
strong family and kin relations
relatively limited social change
life long relations
less tolerance to deviance
what are characteristics of the society?
urban
large scale
impersonal and formal
complex, differentiated economic roles
weak family and kin relations
very evident social change
fleeting relations (with strangers)
greater tolerance to deviance
what is the meaning of human ecology?
urbanization produces new environments, new types of people and new ways of life
what are characteristics of human ecology?
- focus on empirical documentation
- research on distinctive groups and areas
-relating space to specific behavior (crime, violence, drug abuse, prostitution, poverty)
what are 3 factors that shape urban life?
- size
- density
- hetrogeneity/differentiation
what are characteristics of human ecology?
- focus on empirical documentation
- research on distinctive groups and areas
- relating space to specific behavior
what is the sociological definition of the city?
a relativly large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially hetrogeneous individuals
