A01=Peter Saunders
advanced urban sociology research
Author_Peter Saunders
Biotic Forces
castells
Castells 1977a
Castells's Work
Castells’s Work
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Central Government
Chicago Ecology
collective
collective action dynamics
Collective Consumption
Collective Consumption Provision
consumption
Consumption Sector Cleavages
cultural urban forms
density
Durkheim's Method
Durkheim’s Method
ecology
empirical theory testing
Engels 1969a
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eq_society-politics
Functional Dominance
Housing Classes
human
Human Ecology
ideal
moral
neo-Marxist analysis
Pahl's Work
Pahl’s Work
Rural Urban Continuum
Scarce Urban Resources
Simmel's Work
Simmel’s Work
sociology
spatial theory
Spatial Units
Town Country Division
type
Urban Question
Urban Social Movements
Urban Social Theories
Urban Sociology
Urban System
urbanisation processes
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415091169
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 1986
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1986. For this new edition of Social Theory and the Urban Question Peter Saunders has updated the text to take account of major theoretical developments in the 1980s and has also considerably developed his own approach. Three chapters have been completely rewritten and others have been appropriately revised. The revisions ensure that Social Theory and the Urban Question will retain its position as a major textbook in urban sociology and an important contribution to the development of urban social theory. The book begins with a review of the ways in which Weber, Durkheim, Marx and Engels approached the analysis of the city. It goes on to consider the four major theoretical approaches which have been developed in twentieth-century urban sociology - those of human ecology, cultural theories, neo-Weberianism and neo-Marxism. Recent innovations and new directions arising out of the work of contemporary writers such as Castells, Pahl, Harvey and Giddens are discussed and evaluated, and the book concludes by identifying a new 'sociology of consumption' which may now be emerging in the urban studies literature.
