SOC 295 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Contact Tracing, Mass Society, Acculturation
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Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: a reevaluation of definitions. Based on chicago school system and its summary statement in louis. Wirth"s essay rbanism as a way of life". Relatively large, dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals. These factors take away primary-group relationships where it is inevitably replaced by secondary contacts that were impersonal, segmental, superficial, transitory, and often predatory in nature. There is almost an unspoken rule where social interactions in an urban setting is strictly business even by the very atmosphere (fast paced, small talk) Allowed him to include his theory of urbanism. Sees the city dweller as depersonalized, atomized, and susceptible to mass movements. Theory of mass society the basic idea is that people who are socially isolated are especially vulnerable to the appeals of extremist movements. The theory argues that all of society is now urban. Whether settlement concepts and other ecological concepts are useful for explaining ways of life. (172)
