SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Demographic Transition, Counterurbanization, Infant Mortality
4 Apr 2013
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Durkheim were born during the urban environments = anomie [collapse of social norms] Cities were characterized by an absence of social solidarity. People used to live in small villages and people were held by solidarity. People had a clear sense of right/wrong, influenced by religion, as people moved to cities - Subjective understandings and social meanings attached to rural, suburban, and urban environments. Suburban get characterized as homogenous, conforming (all look the same) Big cities - can be viewed as danger but also places of opportunity. Looks at class-relations, working class vs. capitalist class. Looks at thomas malthus - well known for his theory about over population. Malthus believed that: population growth would exceed the food supply, population growth would not exceed the food supply, population declines would happen over time, food supplies would grow exponentially, technological advances would increase the supply of food.
