GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Numeracy, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Louis Wirth
8 Apr 2018
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Louis wirth the size of the urban settlement are more dense, and the number of the people (also heterogeneous) can cause social isolation and anonymity (behaving however you want to behave) No one grows there food anymore, we are dependant on other people and farmers. Urban society is more dependant on others for food. Economic power head office of nike, apple, etc. or political power. City: a legally incorporated self-governing unit; an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. 3500 bc (city of ur) very recent. The agricultural surplus theory: nomadic (hunter-gatherer) societies: Millions/ hundreds of thousands of years: agricultural societies. Labour surplus: labour specialization including non-agricultural labour. One child can specialize in making something and will go into village to sell. The emergence of cities = a social/cultural transition occurs alongside the economic and agricultural transition. Social and cultural transition includes: new and more complex social relationships.
