SOCI 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Captive Market, Golden Horseshoe, Baby Boom
10 Mar 2016
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Demographic: movement of people to cities/increasing size/density of cities. Rural-urban shift: population becoming more urban = people moved to cities. Metropolitan concentration (inhabitants) + metropolitan regionalization (territory) ^^^ Wirth: size, density, heterogeneity makes people urban. Larger city = denser pop = wider range of diffs among people = more urban. These also result in less intimate, more complex+superficial relationships vvv. Cities: something experienced; diff cities feel diff to diff ppl and are accessed differently. Shapes people within it (internalization) but is also built by people (externalization) Urbanization + value judgements; anti-urban sentiment was very strong w/industrialization (impersonal chaotic dirty), now: where things happen, superior to rural. German school of urban soc: social relationships within industrialism (macro/hist) Tonnies: gemeinschaft (community) gesellschaft (society) [personal- impersonal] Simmel: psychosocial impact of urban life: ^competition+overstimulation+aloofness. Chicago school: chicago=lab/field to uncover urban dynamics (micro/ecological) Burgess concentric zone theory: particular types of people/behaviours can be mapped in a series of circles around the central business district.
