SLGY 2253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Urban Sociology, Complex Number, Mesoamerica
15 Nov 2016
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Sociology; the study of human societies and cultures, grouplife, and human interaction. Psychology; the study of the individual, especially the human mind, motivation and cognitive and emotional processes. Human geography; study of human communities and how they are organized and change across space and time. Alienation; the act of ostricizing someone from a group or culture. Urban sociology; the field of sociology that focuses on human interaction in relation to the development an current organization of cities. Cities have existed for around 10 000 years. Earliest cities found in asia, middle east, mesoamerica. Many cities were the heart of an empire. Agricultural revolution: advances in food production that created food surplus marked by the shift from hunter gatherers to permanent settlement and the domestication of plants and animals. Made it possible for cities to develop within a complex division of labour.
