Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes -Urban Sociology, Primate City, Global City
20 Apr 2014
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This suggests that to be urban might not best as living in a box labelled. Metropolitan concentration = increase of number of inhabitants. Metropolitan regionalization = increase of size in terms of territory. Size, density, and heterogeneity (diverse) is the most important explanations for what makes people urban: the 2nd view of urbanization is more socio-cultural and emphasizes the pervasiveness of urban oriented thinking, culture, and organization throughout society. In this view, it is not where you live that is important but how you live. If your life is defined more and more by ideas and organizations of urban origin, then you have been urbanized. Even rural dwellers have become increasingly urbanized. Cities seem to serve as the primary locus of activity and new ideas that permeate all of the society. Urbanization was viewed not just as an outcome but as a catalyst producing consequences (urbanization = process, a quality or lifestyle)
