lecture 9

Question 1

what is the central question of social urban goegraphy?

Answer 1

what are the social implications of urbanism and urbanization after the industrialization?

Question 2

why is the central question of social urban geography so important?

Answer 2

• Deterministic views of the city: places of diversity and individualism
• In urbanized societies primary relationships are less sustained (friends and family)
• Social differentiations leads to weak social cohesion
• Tönnies (1889): Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaf (society)

Question 3

what does gemeinschaft mean?

Answer 3

community

Question 4

what does gesellschaf mean?

Answer 4

society

Question 5

what are characteristics of the community?

Answer 5

rural
small scale
personal and informal
simple, low division of labour
strong family and kin relations
relatively limited social change
life long relations
less tolerance to deviance

Question 6

what are characteristics of the society?

Answer 6

urban
large scale
impersonal and formal
complex, differentiated economic roles
weak family and kin relations
very evident social change
fleeting relations (with strangers)
greater tolerance to deviance

Question 7

what is the meaning of human ecology?

Answer 7

urbanization produces new environments, new types of people and new ways of life

Question 8

what are characteristics of human ecology?

Answer 8

• focus on empirical documentation
• research on distinctive groups and areas
  -relating space to specific behavior (crime, violence, drug abuse, prostitution, poverty)

Question 9

what are 3 factors that shape urban life?

Answer 9

1. size
2. density
3. hetrogeneity/differentiation

Question 10

what are characteristics of human ecology?

Answer 10

• focus on empirical documentation
• research on distinctive groups and areas
• relating space to specific behavior

Question 11

what is the sociological definition of the city?

Answer 11

a relativly large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially hetrogeneous individuals