Sociology 2152A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Sociology, Claude S. Fischer, Georg Simmel
22 Jan 2017
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Urbanization: more and more people are increasing: big cities are getting bigger and bigger. Urbanism: way of life associated with living in cities: as urbanization was increasing, the way of life was changing = became an urbanism. Did not like cities, liked small towns. Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft (1887: tonnies conception of the nature of social systems is based on his distinction between the gemeinschaft (communal society) and the. Tonnies did not like how the gemeinschaft was disappearing: gemeinschaft = community (family ties, social life, everyone knows everyone else) Natural and normal been around for 1000s of years: this is how people should live. Cold and abnormal wipes out gemeinschaft: emotionally cut off from other individuals. Traditional society: mechanical solidarity: a form of social interdependence based on commonly shared beliefs and strong group identity functionally equivalent and substitutable. Based on very simple division of labour. Similar to simple organism or machine: individuals are mostly.
