SOCI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blue Hole, Urban Sociology, Human Resources
17 Apr 2016
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Gideon sjoberg on preindustrial cities: had been working on pre industrial african cities realized they had very little in common with modern european cities but lots with medieval. Because of the surplus of agricultural production without surplus no city. Surplus in itself is nothing, it does not become available until it has been taken away from the agricultural population (state intervention: technology seen by him as the beginning of everything. Preindustrial city is measured at the industrial standard, it is everything the industrial city is but it is not it is missing things: energy used for all kinds of endeavors animals and humans. In industrial city it is technology that we use. Wind mills and water dams existed but were not major sources of energy: large, dense, diverse he emphasizes these elements. In north african cities he was struck by rigid segregation of social groups. Achieved something we are doing ourselves: getting a degree.
