Lec 1 - Jan 11 Flashcards
Theme 1: What is the city as _______? Can this question even be answered?
Theme 1: _______ as an object of study? Can this question even be answered?
Theme 2: How do cities _______ on their inhabitants? How do they structure their communities?
Theme 2: ______ act back _________? How do they structure their communities?
An example of cities “acting back” on inhabitants
Indus Valley first private bathrooms changed culture / ideas / subjectivity
In David Henry’s opinion, what are cities all about?
surplus
Theme 4: How are ___________ cities different? Is this a useful distinction?
Theme 4: ________ preindustrial cities ____? Is this a useful distinction?
Theme 5: ________________ archaeologists __________ cities? (for example, Pompei)
Theme 5: How are ___________ uniquely positioned to understand cities? (for example, Pompei).
Theme 6: Why does it matter to talk about _________ cities?
Theme 6: _________________ ancient ________?
Polis …
Classic Greek city (from where politics, police, metropolis comes from)
Polities …
structured governance OR an organized society
Who thought the fall of Rome was “fine” and associated it all with sin & decadence?
Saint Augustine
Who said states precede the creation of cities?
Ibn Khaldun
The two main figures behind the idea of cultural evolution
Edward B. Tylor & Lewis H. Morgan
- Asiatic MoP 2. ______
- ________ 2. Ancient MoP
- Ancient MoP 3. _____
- _________ 3. Feudal MoP
- Feudal MoP 4. ______
- _____ 4. Capitalist MoP
What came before Asiatic MoP? (3 terms)
- primitive communism 2. tributary MoP 3. kinship MoP
Ancient MoP (3 points)
- slave labor enriches estates 2. Aristocratic control of cities 3. heaviest stratification
Feudal MoP (1 point)
- contracts between serfs & lords
What conflict during the Feudal MoP led to global capitalism?
Conflict between cities & lords led to global capitalism (urbanization & capitalization of the countryside).
Capitalist MoP (3 points)
- migrating labor 2. industrialization of countryside 3. commodities
What did Emile Durkheim think happens to kinship in the city life?
kinship gets replaced by specialist corporations (according to E.D.)
ANOMIE (Durkheim)
lawlessness and lack of solidarity typical of modern cities
cities are somewhere between market and fortress (according to)
What did Max Weber say cities were like …
What did who say is the main “explicit manifestation” of cities?
blase (disregard for strangers) is the city’s what? – Georg Simmel
Ezra Park & who?
Ernest Burgess
the _____________ zonation model
the concentric __________ model
Ezra Park & Ernest Burgess were from what school?
Chicago School
Ezra Park’s student, ______________, defined the city as having what?
Lewis Wirth defined a city as hosting many heterogeneous individuals (and the downside is alienation)
3 main determinants of urbanity …. 1. 2. 3. heterogeneity
- number 2. density 3. _________ ?
the distinction between urban and rural is vague.
No. It is rigid.
What is necessary or develops along with cities?
the state
cities are the apex of stage-based
social evolution
