Sociology 2152A/B Chapter 5: Chapter 5
11 Feb 2017
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Chapter 5: social ties and community in urban. Urbanization and community changed the social and industrial organization of the city. Human ecology: the relationship between people and their environment. Primary groups (charles cooley): intimate associations characterized by. Secondary relations: fleeting interactions between strangers or routine. Chicago school, pessimistic about the way city life affect social relationships. Size of the urban environment made it impossible for all urban opposites residents to know each other and as a result necessitated the shift from primary > secondary. Density and heterogeneity of the urban environment led. Mixing across groups was difficult, as urban residents people to live in homogenous groups (cid:498)natural areas(cid:499) Urbanites had a blas attitude interpersonal relations were. Bonds of family, neighborliness etc. were absent in urban life are highly segmented impersonal. Chicago school instrumental in legitimizing what came to be known as the ethnographic approach experiences of the setting as would the social participant.
