GEOG 457 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Working Poor, Urban Sociology, Friedrich Engels
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Appears in: social science, political activist, artists, religious activists, novelist. Established by william booth to specifically address problem of industrial city from pastoral perspective: charles booth: Social sciences emerged in the later 19th century. Rise of the social sciences as they considered the condition of the industrial city. Industrial and social researcher: life and labour of the people in london. The chicago school: various professions: journalists, social workers, church minister. Contributed to the formation of the chcago school of urban sociology in the. Chicago: grown from 10,000 to 2,000,000 in 50 years. City of immigrants : great industrial city on lake michigan, populated by diverse european imigrants, focus on the inner city and it"s uprooted, influenced by charles booth. Great mappers of social data and this plus their detailed neighbourhood studies have made them of interest to social geographers. Learned the city and neighbourhoods: concentric zone model , chicago school emphasized zones 2 and 3 for their neighbourhood studies.
