SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hobo, Human Ecology, Urban Sociology
12 Oct 2017
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Soc 470: the european tradition and the chicago school. Urban sociology was established in response to the conditions of the industrial revolution. Late 19th and early 20th century europe. Desire to understand the nature of change to social life and social problems in cities. How does change impact on the social organization of cities. People organizing themselves in terms of social order. Structural functional: emphasizes the fact that society works if everyone is doing what they"re supposed to be doing, it"s a system or a structure that works in terms of the people in it, avoids chaos (macro) Social-conflict: recognizes issues of power and injustice, society is doomed to ward conflict because of inequality and problems within the structure (macro) Symbolic interaction: what does it mean for people to be functioning individuals, product of people"s everyday interactions (micro) Classical european sociologists: (late 19th early 20th centuries)
