Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Roderick Mckenzie, Concentric Zone Model, Urban Ecology
10 Feb 2017
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Chapter 3: analyzing and interpreting the city . 1915 uofchicago professor robert park outlined a program to understand the essence of the industrial city. Chicago school studied divided into two categories: park: 1. Different types of land use and how services/populations are arranged over the space it is provided. Inspired approach known as human ecology: 2. City composed of a constellation of different social worlds or natural areas, each with its own distinct language, traditions, and ways of life. Study of neighborhoods and subcommunities = urban. European social theorists = main story was the shift from a traditional rural ethnography way of life, to a modern industrial social order. Gemeinschaft (tonnies) and mechanical solidarity (durkheim: social life characterized by an emphasis on kinship, village togetherness, and minimum diversity in language, work culture, obeyed rules of social life to not be shunned by other members.
