Sociology in Cities

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This paper includes a reaction to the reading of three works regarding the sociology of cities. The basic thrust of the essay is that cities can still thrive if they stress values and cultural elements which give them a competitive advantage. Austin and Miami are examples used in the readings. An effort is made to tie the readings together and explain why these cities thrive.

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"In their introductory sociology text, Giddens, Duneier, and Appelbaum point to cities as important forces in socialization because it is in the city that life teems and tosses in a stew of human activity fueling creativity, conflict, diversity, progress, industrialization, and organization. It is in the city that humans come together for struggle or education and the ideas that come out of that clash often lead the progress in economic development, personal enlightenment, human rights, and other important social developments. Because of the proximity of other humans in the city, people are forced to come face to face with their prejudices and their own ideologies. That is the reason the city has a special place in the creative conflict that is human history. But do cities really matter anymore?"

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