Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Louis Wirth, Human Ecology, Urban Sociology

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Chapter 3: analyzing and interpreting the city: theory and method 1. 8 recurrent threads and themes" around which urban sociology revolves around: what it feels like to live in a modern city and whether there is any universal. A culturalist vs. a structural orientation; a spatial vs. an associational emphasis; a realist versus a constructionists interpretation. Urban researchers are increasingly embracing a social constructionist" interpretation that depicts urban life as an ongoing negotiation of cultural meaning involving different individuals, groups and organizations, each striving to make its own interpretations hegemonic (dominant) Since its emergence as a distinct subdiscipline in the 1920s and 1930s, the sociological study of the city has been punctuated by 5 identifiable approaches: human ecological; community studies; social interactionist; political economic and social constructionist. Human ecological, political economic approach the status of full theoretical paradigms. Social interactionist more closely resemble methodological strategies equipped with some basic underlying theoretical assumptions.

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