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Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so provide inputs for planning and policy making. In other words, it is the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society. Like most areas of sociology, urban sociologists use statistical analysis, observation, social theory, interviews, and other methods to study a range of topics, including migration and demographic trends, economics, poverty, race relations and economic trends.
The philosophical foundations of modern urban sociology originate from the work of sociologists such as Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and Georg Simmel who studied and theorized the economic, social and cultural processes of urbanization and its effects on social alienation, class formation, and the production or destruction of collective and individual identities.
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Matthew Desmond is an urban sociologist revealing the impact of eviction on poor families and the role of housing policy in sustaining poverty and racial inequality in large American cities. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/fellows and explore their stories on social media with the hashtag #MacFellow.
A short video I put together to introduce the study of Urban Sociology to people who are unfamiliar with it and a little bit of information about the field as well. Enjoy!
Karen Sternheimer (USC) interviews Sharon Zukin (Brooklyn College) about her research and her latest book, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places.
A Video I made to present my final paper in Urban Sociology over "Why are Poor People Poor?"
Presentation by Candace Metcalf @ Fort Hays State University during undergraduate course Community Sociology.
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Speaker: Professor Fran Tonkiss Chair: Professor Ricky Burdett Recorded on 6 May 2015 in New Theatre, East Building. What kinds of cities are emerging as urbanisation grows alongside worsening inequality? Why does urban inequality matter, and what is distinctive about urban inequalities now? Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology at LSE and Director of the Cities Programme. Ricky Burdett (@BURDETTR) is Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Sociology, and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology) was established in 1904 and remains committed to top quality teaching and leading research and scholarship today.
Topic: “Local elections in Mariupol: urban sociology, pre-electoral mood” Iryna Perkova, head of “Gromadske TV Pryazovya” Maria Podybailo, coordinator of the NGO “Coordination Center of Patriotic Forces “New Mariupol’ Kostyantyn Batozskyi, Head of the NGO “Rozvytok Pryazovia”
Dean's Lecture Series 2015 Professor Neil Brenner Professor of Urban Theory / Director, Urban Theory Lab / Graduate School of Design / Harvard University The urban age in question: towards a new epistemology of the urban 17 March 2015 Melbourne School of Design The University of Melbourne In what sense is the 21st century world urban? In this lecture, Neil Brenner critiques contemporary ideologies of the "urban age," which confront this question with reference to the purported fact that more than 50% of the world's population resides within cities. Against such demographic, city-centric understandings, Brenner excavates Henri Lefebvre's (1970) notion of generalized urbanization for conceptual and methodological insights into the 21st century planetary urban condition. He argues that th...
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Kasinitz, Professor Michael Keith, Rob Berkeley, Tim Finch, Professor Sharon Zukin Chair: Professor Mike Savage Recorded on 10 October 2013 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Increasingly, a strand of political conservatism depicts migration in terms of depleting assets. This event brings together leading experts to explore more productive avenues for engaging with global urbanisation and migration. Philip Kasinitz is professor of sociology at City University, New York. Michael Keith is director of the Centre of Migration, Policy and Social Change at the University of Oxford. Rob Berkeley is director of the Runnymede Trust. Tim Finch is director of communications at IPPR. Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at City University, New York; ...
Manuel Castells, university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles will speak on "The financial crisis from 2008-2012 and the response from the grassroots: alternative economic cultures and social movements." Professor Castells will provide an analysis of the economic crisis, and then explore the relationship between social movements such as Occupy Wall Street and alternative cultures. Professor Castells is also research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 22 academic books and editor or co-author of 21 additional books, as well as over 100 articles in academic journals. He has received...
Ecologies and Inequalities Culture, Theory, Space Guest Seminar Series Thursday 28th November 2013 1.00pm -- 2.00pm Plymouth University Room 203, Roland Levinsky Building This talk will draw on thinking from the fields of urban and economic sociology, to investigate the relationship between urban development and design, urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space. Key changes in each of these domains raise new challenges for analyzing social and economic relations, power, agency and identity. Tonkiss will argue that whilst cities are machines for creating inequality; also machines for solving inequality. Background: Fran Tonkiss is Director of the LSE Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology, with interests including cities ...
Humboldt University Berlin Department of Urban Sociology Kosmos Dialogues 2016 Think & Drink Colloquium Prof. Raquel Rolnik (USP) Urban warfare: the colonization of housing and urban land by finance Real estate in general and housing in particular have been one of the most powerful new frontiers of financial capital expansion during the last decades. The belief that markets could regulate the allocation of urban land and housing as the most rational means of resource distribution, combined with experiments with ‘creative’ financial products related to it, has resulted in public policies that have abandoned the conceptual meaning of housing as a social good and of the city as a public artifact. Housing and urban policies have shifted from being part of the commonalities a society agrees ...
Deutsches Haus at NYU and Urban Democracy Lab present: At the Grassroots: Urban Gardening as Politics May 5th, 2015 Cities have long been vilified as unhealthy, crime-infested, and chaotic – or, as Thomas Jefferson once described them, “pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.” Parklands and gardens, green-spaces and fire-escape flower beds are viewed as mitigators of urban malaise, making livable and attractive the “unnatural” environments of cities. Yet gardens are not neutral territories. They advance political agendas and critique others. They can be sites of resistance, as well as tools of social control. This panel discussion explores the politics of the urban garden, past and present, in American, German, and Austrian contexts. It accompanies the Deu...