PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth, Anomie

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

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Lecture 3 urban culture and space: the countryside: social and relational conditions a. i. Homogeneous: low division of labor/too few people for subgroup formation a. ii. No variation, difference on what was moral and immoral, sacred and profane, right and wrong a. ii. 2. Internalize basic rules, the fewer differences there are between these rules, the more normal they become a. iii. Different institutions, but people and norms were quite similar, this bound the group together a. iv. High surveillance and sanctioning capacities: all eyes are watching. Harsh punishment for deviant groups, minority beliefs, a. iv. 1. practices that didn"t conform to the dominant norm. Modern metropolis and mental-social life: the modern metropolis: geographical and social features a. i. Difficult to maintain a sense of we a. ii. Numbers drive internal diversity: the division of labor and subcultures a. ii. 1. Division of labor number of operations to complete a particular task a. iii. Weak boundaries + high diversity challenges common norms a. iii. 1. a. iii. 2. Loss of controls and sanctioning capacities a. iv. 1. a. iv. 2.