Urban Sociology (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Urban SociologyThis, then, leaves the third of the three approaches: to write exactly what the title indicates - an urban sociology. The emphasis is equally on both words: urbanism, following Wirth, is conceived as a way of life rather than as a form of habitat, and sociology as a concern with human beings living together and oriented to each other. To bring the main problems sharply to attention I have focused on man rather than on his Visible artifacts, on social actions and social relationships rather than on spatial patterns, on nonmaterial culture rather than on physical objects, on groups rather than on areas, and on social techniques rather than on technology in a narrow sense.The necessity to avoid unreasonable length and my own scientific limita tions account for certain omissions. This book is essentially an analysis of contemp ary urban society in the United States. I have tried to sketch some importan historical developments and, for the sake of comparison, to refer to European cities as much as possible, but detailed discussion has been omitted. There are, after all, several excellent books available for collateral study. But other material, some of it unpublished or difficult to obtain, has been added. Footnotes have been kept to a minimum, I do not believe that an abundance of annotations is always an indication of scholarship, they are a source of annoyance to the not yet seasoned reader for whom this book has been written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.