SOCB44H3 Lecture Notes - Urban Renewal, Africville, Underground Railroad
Document Summary
In 1920"s and 30"s, major problem had to do with migration and immigration. Cities like chicago had suddenly grown overnight into large tropical urban cities. Job was not only to explain growth but to cope with the social disorganization. Migrants and immigrants suddenly flooded into city. Problems between different generations, crimes, divorce, marriage breakdown were impacts of these changes. American cities in 1960s and 1970s, problem was urban conflict that was based on racial differences. Had roots in population shift, tremendous shift after wwii. Urban riots (1967), american cities witnessed significant urban riots. Large number of rioters would do things like looming, burning and become publicized on news. You couldn"t explain these urban riots through theories or growth models. Issue of race in 1920s-30s, race has been relatively minor factor in ecology in various growth models. Immigrants were coming from southern and central europe, race was not major factor. Ethnicity was more important factor than race.
