Chicago School of Urban Sociology

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School

The City in China

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

In 2015, one hundred years passed since Robert Park penned his seminal article “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment” in the American Journal of Sociology. It provided an agenda for the Chicago school of urban sociology, which came to shape urban research for decades to come. Since 1915 much has changed, both in the urban world itself and in the urban research that reflects on those transformations. In today’s world of global cities, cities around the world have undergone dramatic development, and nowhere as dramatic as in China. In the world of urban research, Park’s human ecology approach has lost the appeal that it once had. Against this background, in this book specialists on urban China reflect on the relevance of Park’s article on “The City” – for cities in China, for urban research, and for questions about studying the social life of the city. The aim of the book is to take Park’s article as a point of departure for critical reflection on both the research on urban China and on the issues that Chinese cities face. The book offers readers a timely respite from the eruption of urban China research, to reflect on what the city in China contributes to urban studies more generally. Despite the shared starting point, the contributors represent a range of perspectives that would disrupt any notion of monolithic “Chinese school” while also pointing the way towards recurrent challenges, topics and approaches relevant for a contemporary urbanism.

scholarly journals A Critical Intervention for Urban Sociology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn ◽  
Prentiss Dantzler ◽  
Junia Howell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Future Work

U.S. urban sociology continues to be dominated by the Chicago School’s theories and methodological approaches. While yielding valuable insight regarding the importance of place, this body of work reproduces racism through explicit and implicit appeals to White-centered sensibility and desirability. In this chapter, we examine two specific Chicago School-inspired theories and related empirical work—spatial assimilation and place stratification. We draw from Du Boisian, racial capitalism, and other critical perspectives to illuminate the racial logics buoying this research. Where urban sociology underscores linear progression towards or digression from Whiteness, we emphasize urban heterogeneity and the intentional, non-linear or cyclical production of urban communities. Further, we argue that urban sociology must reckon with the racist roots of some of its most popular theories and methods, and recommend that future work explicitly center the mutually constitutive racism-capitalism-urbanization processes that have long shaped cities in the U.S. and around the world.

Skateboarding and the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This chapter offers a brief history of the subculture and introduces readers to skateboarding practices. There is a detailed description of tricks and a discussion of how skateboarding forces a reexamination of classic urban sociology by focusing on the specific history of the growth of Los Angeles. In doing so we come to appreciate not only how skateboarding changes one’s perception of urban space, but also how skaters’ cognitive maps of the city offer a critique of classic Chicago School sociology.

scholarly journals Forging Hispanic Communities in New Destinations: A Case Study of Durham, North Carolina

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenoa A. Flippen ◽  
Emilio A. Parrado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social History ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Immigrant

The Chicago School of urban sociology and its extension in the spatial assimilation model have provided the dominant framework for understanding the interplay between immigrant social and spatial mobility. However, the main tenets of the theory were derived from the experience of prewar, centralized cities; scholars falling under the umbrella of the Los Angeles School have recently challenged the extent to which they are applicable to the contemporary urban form, which is characterized by sprawling, decentralized, and multinucleated development. Indeed, new immigrant destinations, such as those scattered throughout the American Southeast, are both decentralized and lack prior experience with large–scale immigration. Informed by this debate this paper traces the formation and early evolution of Hispanic neighborhoods in Durham, NC, a new immigrant destination. Using qualitative data we construct a social history of immigrant neighborhoods and apply survey and census information to examine the spatial pattern of neighborhood succession. We also model the sorting of immigrants across neighborhoods according to personal characteristics. Despite the many differences in urban form and experience with immigration, the main processes forging the early development of Hispanic neighborhoods in Durham are remarkably consistent with the spatial expectations from the Chicago School, though the sorting of immigrants across neighborhoods is more closely connected to family dynamics and political economy considerations than purely human capital attributes.

scholarly journals Соседская община через призму Чикагской школы: практика ТОС в развитии городских территорий

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Евгений Васильевич БУЛАХ ◽  
Анастасия Романовна КНЯЗЕВА ◽  
Владислава Геннадьевна ЦОЙ
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Solution Process ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
Community Theory

Основываясь на взглядах о социологии городского пространства, нашедших отражение в работах таких авторов, как Георг Зиммель, Макс Вебер, Фердинанд Тённис, Роберт Парк, Эрнст Бёрджесс и др., в статье рассматриваются характеристики современного городского соседского сообщества. Есть основания пересмотреть мнение представителей Чикагской школы об утере сообществом своих уникальных свойств. В представленной работе территориальное общественное самоуправление (ТОС) рассматривается как возможная организационно-правовая форма соседской общины. Авторы выделяют перечень функциональных задач ТОС и отмечают схожесть со «свободной общиной». муниципальная политика, городское сообщество, соседская община, теория свободной общины, местное самоуправление, муниципалитет, территориальное общественное самоуправление (ТОС), вопросы местного значения Based on the views of urban sociology as reflected in the works of such authors as Georg Simmel, Max Weber, Ferdinand Tönnies, Robert Park, Ernest Burgess etc, this article considers possibilities of modern urban neighbourhood community, its unique properties which were previously lost according to the Chicago school. They include both properties of a traditional community and an economic operator. With consolidation of separate power bases, it becomes an element of the unified system of public authorities. In the presented work local public self-government (LPSG) is considered as a possible institutional-legal form of a neighbourhood community. The authors analyse characteristics of the LPSG in Russia and reveal its identity to the characteristics of the “free community”. The authors allocate a list of the functional tasks, the solving of which characterises residents of one or several houses, self-organised in the form of LPSG. By gathering into the LPSG citizens represent a specific entity of the dialog between people and the authorities therefore ensure the effectiveness of local issues solution process. municipal policy, neighbourhood community, the free community theory, local self-government (LPSG), municipality, local public self-government, local issues

Sociology and the study of cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Orum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places

Cities, as well as urban places, are a fascinating focus of study. Sociology comes into its own when studying not only physical urban spaces, but also processes that happen in urban spaces. Various schools of study of sociology have highlighted various aspects. For several decades the Chicago School of Sociology shaped urban sociology as a whole. For example, urban sociologists, whether at Chicago or elsewhere, see the city as a place consisting of different concentric zones—a zone of manufacturing, for example, as well as a red light district, and particular ethnic settlements. Each of these zones carries with it various issues related to mental health, well-being, and mental illness. Some of the earliest studies in urban mental health originated from Chicago. The concept of public space and its functioning creates a number of issues that need exploration. There appears to be a genuine intellectual division and tension between those who insist that public space permits people to gather and express themselves freely and those who insist that the reality of the world today has eliminated the notion of public space. This chapter explores these issues within the broader context of globalization.

scholarly journals Forty Four Years of Debate: The Impact of Race, Community and Conflict

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Moore
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Conflict

Race, Community and Conflict by John Rex and Robert Moore was published in 1967 and had a considerable public impact through press and TV. Forty four years later it is still widely cited in research on British urban society and ‘race relations’. It is used in teaching research methods, theory, urban sociology and ‘race relations’ to undergraduates. This article describes and explains the immediate impact of the book and its more lasting contribution to sociology. Race, Community and Conflict immediately addressed contemporary public issues around immigration and race relations and was the first book systematically to explore the responses of one city administration to the arrival of new migrants drawn in by the local demand for labour. The longer term impact of the book, it is argued, derives from its attempt to create a theoretical framework deriving from both the work of the Chicago School of Sociology and the adoption of a Weberian approach to social class and urban conflict. The combination of theorised structural analysis with detailed local ethnographic approaches to research probably accounts for the book's continued contribution to the teaching of sociology.

L'étrange carrière de la notion de classe sociale dans la tradition de Chicago en sociologie

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Chapoulie
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Classe Sociale ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Short Time ◽  
American Cities

The article examines the different uses made of the concept of social class by researchers of the Chicago School between the turn of the century and the 1940s. The concept of social class is found in Small and Cooley, rarely referred to by Park, and not found at all in the urban sociology work he inspired in the 1920s (Shaw and McKay, etc.) However it reappears in the work on race relations at the end of the 1930s (Frazier, Hughes). Substitutes were introduced in the 1920s to explain internal differentiation within American cities. The spread of new methods of documentation favoured its reappearance in social-political and scientific contexts at the end of the 1930s. This example suggests that an order of phenomena which aims to explain a concept like social class—which is both a scientific and a lay person's concept—can only be ignored for a short time by a program of empirical research. The conclusion stresses the heterogeneity of factors which take into account the transmission and non-transmission of this type of idea from one generation of sociological researchers to another.

scholarly journals Introduction: Streetlife – the shifting sociologies of the street

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 937-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Hubbard ◽  
Dawn Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
A Site ◽  
Specific Contribution

The street has long been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of urban sociology in the ethnographies of the Chicago School to the diverse range of contemporary studies which consider the performative, affective and non-representational nature of street etiquette and encounter. For all this, the street remains only loosely defined in many studies, and sometimes disappears from view entirely, with social action often privileged over material and environmental context. This Special Issue is intended as a spur to take the street more seriously in contemporary sociology, and explores the importance of the street as a site, scale and field for sociological research. Recognising that the street is both contradictory and complex, the Introduction to this Issue draws out emerging themes in the shifting sociologies of the street by highlighting the specific contribution interdisciplinary work can make to our understanding of streets as distinctive but contested social spaces.

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