SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Friedrich Engels, Georg Simmel, Operation Soap
11 Jun 2018
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SOCI week 4
Urban Sociology
Outline
Theorizing the city
The modern city:
➢ Suburbia
➢ Graffiti
➢ Gentrification
-Cities in popular culture
Classical sociological approaches towards cities:
➢ Friedrich Engels
o Condition of the working class in England (Manchester)
o Beefits of ode soiet ae’t distiuted euall i soiet
o Poor people moving here are having worse living conditions than before
o Cities were crowded, busy and unhealthy
o Capitalism emphasized in the city (intertwined)
➢ Emile Durkheim
o City life can be functional because it takes the form of organic solidarity
Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
➢ Metropolis and mental health (1902)
➢ City life requires the development of a blasé attitude
➢ Cities allow individuals to freely express multiple aspects of themselves
✓ Cities offer both opportunities and draw backs
✓ Cities are highly stimulated
• Hardened shell people develop to manage the stimulation urban life
• Forms of association
o Countries draw many circles with all overlap
▪ Small opportunities for change/personal growth
o Cities draw many circles might touch might not
Queering city life
✓ City as more liberating space for being out
✓ Simmelian reading of the city
✓ Cities allow for the gathering of critical masses of queer people
✓ Queer activism
✓ Ne Yok’s stonewall (1969)
✓ Tooto’s ath house aids opeatio soap
• Pride began as an anti-police movement in new York
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Document Summary
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