SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Urban Sociology, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Social Conflict
1 Nov 2017
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How people interact, where they are living, why they are living, etc: three main sociological approaches, structural functional: society is like a puzzle. Society is about all of the pieces coming together and functioning as a whole, what should be promoting is stability. Looks at the micro interactions: classical european sociologists (late 19th 20th centuries, toennies: Introduces the rural/urban typology: a(cid:895) ge(cid:373)ei(cid:374)s(cid:272)haft (cid:894)(cid:396)u(cid:396)al o(cid:396) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)y (cid:448)illage(cid:895): let"s thi(cid:374)k a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat"s i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) these country villages, and look at the perspective. Everything is fairly closely knit and tied to the family, and motives are not questioned as much. The city is based less on the family, and human actions are questioned more because everyone seems to be more rational and calculated. He describes the relationships and interactions as all being very superficial. Very pessimistic view of cities due to decline of collectivism: durkheirm:
