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Alternative Conceptions of Community Life
Arts and Urban Culture
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C. Wright Mills
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Chicago School of Sociology
Cultures of Civility
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Erving Goffman
Ferdinand Toennies
Gendered Urban Spaces
Georg Simmel
Sports and the Urban Revolution
Stranger Interaction in Public Places
Suburbanization of America
Urban Politics
Émile Durkheim
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- ISBN 9780275956479
- Weight: 1644g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.
Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly updated edition of Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life remains true to this particular theoretical angle of vision—the symbolic interactionist approach—focusing on specific topics that are relatively neglected in other urban sociology texts, and that lend themselves to the kind of social-psychological analyses that define the distinctive conceptual core of the authors' efforts.
After the first two chapters supply readers with theoretical foundations of urban sociology, the next four chapters describe the various ways that individuals experience and make sense of key aspects of urban life. The final section—also composed of four chapters—addresses strategically chosen urban institutions and related processes of social change. Specific subject areas covered include sports, everyday public life, tolerance for diversity, women in cities, urban politics, and the arts. Readers will learn about how order is maintained in public urban places, understand why cities naturally breed a tolerance for diversity that may not be so easily achieved in less urban settings, and appreciate the delicate political and economic tensions between cities and their surrounding suburbs.
David A. Karp, PhD, is professor emeritus at Boston College where he taught for 42 years.
Gregory P. Stone, PhD, who died in 1981, was professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.
William C. Yoels, PhD, retired as professor emeritus at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Nicholas P. Dempsey, PhD, is assistant professor of sociology at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL.
