Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-14: Centrality
13 Jun 2015
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Focus on human ecology: the relationship between people and their environment, parks suggested that modern methods of urban transportation and communication have silently and rapidly changed in recent years the social and industrial organisation of the modern city, the nature of these changes was in the substitution of indirect (secondary) for direct (primary) relations in associations and the community, charles cooley described, primary groups: as those intimate associations characterized by face to face associations important in forming group norms and ideals, secondary relations: are better described as interactions than relationships. Fleeting exchanges between strangers or routine instrumental interactions: mainly pessimistic of the way in which the city affected social relationships, urbanism as a way of life l. wirth, argues the city and rural areas were completely opposite, size, density and heterogeneity lead to alienation of people, the size of the urban areas made it impossible for everyone to know each other.
