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This paper explores how the ideas of the Chicago School are still relevant to urban sociologists even today. Furthermore, the paper considers how urban settings impact the social life that takes place within their environs. Finally, the last brief section of the paper describes how social exclusion has undeniable consequences for urban sociology and should be carefully explored by urban sociologists.

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"The basic premise of the Chicago School was that human behavior was determined by social and physical/environmental factors - and not, as many had previously believed, by genetic/personal features. In short, the school maintained that human behavior was a product of the ecology within which individuals were reared and that the modern city served as a useful..."

Tags:sociology, ecology, exclusion

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The paper discusses how Wirth contends that rural dwellers were the first individuals to inhabit the city. The paper examines the variations in the cultures that exist within the city. The paper further examines how the rise of technology has impacted both rural and urban society.

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"Wirth contends that rural dwellers were the first individuals to inhabit the city. As the author analyses the variations in the cultures that exist within the city, therefore, Wirth suggests that they are not as comparatively different from one another because both the urban and rural societies have a basis in the same cultural system of belief. In addition to this correlation between urban and rural societies, Wirth stipulates that the rise of technology within the urban world has created advances that serve both societies, and create a stronger bond between the connections that exist between them. For example, Wirth explains that technology has significantly affected both urban and rural communities through communications systems, radio, theatre, transportation, and health care. While these technological developments may have been empowered by the urban culture, they have become necessary inclusions in the rural society."

Tags:urban, sociology, society

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In this article the writer looks at the meaning of the term urban and discusses the extent that the urban setting shapes the social life which occurs within it. The writer notes that these issues are closely interrelated. This paper argues, the term "urban" must be understood as a sociological concept whose characteristics fundamentally define the social relations that occur within the urban space. The writer concludes that models of human social behaviour, such as civility, are developed in urban settings as a means of coping with the stresses of population densities as well as a cultural production that is deeply intertwined with economic and emotional relationships of humans as groups and as individuals.

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"The relationship between the urban setting and the social life that occurs within it is thus complex but clear. The population densities and uses of space that physically characterize urban settings lead to a range of impacts upon social relations that, in many cases as in the cultural realm, seem indirect and would likely not be predicted. To use a metaphor, within a physical setting human population densities increase until a "critical mass" is attained, at which point "urbanity" comes into existence with an explosion of social and cultural forms that are distinct to urban life.
"Consider, for example, the arguments of some urban sociologists that the urban setting has led to a radical revisioning of fundamental human social interactions."

Tags:sociological, populations, densities, relations

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A position paper referring to geographical/spatial and also cultural/ethno-racial models of 'community' in large urban settings of the present. This critique leads on the idea of a community as a dynamic created by residents feeling different kinds of attachment or membership. References are made to models of the 1980s and 1990s in North America that can seem discarded.

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"The day of Globalization has altered what were earlier understood to be boundaries or borders, towards different ideas of what a human community might be. For example, some have argued that bona fide communities are those formed by Internet users of similar tastes, interests and values, as compared to a geographical understanding of a spatial community. All matters become the more interesting in view of the numbers of large, expanding and ethnically diverse cities now found in several parts of the world as create different problems for planners and the need to consider ..."

Tags:community, definitions

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Durkheim believed that capitalism produced metropolises characterized by division of labour. There is a mechanical unity that arises from repressive law and there is organic solidarity which arises from the division of labour. Mechanical solidarity is automatic whereas organic solidarity is tentative. Mechanical solidarity is something in which tribal, ethnic, racial and familial "resemblances" link people; organic solidarity is when interdependence and division of labour unites people. Overall, Durkheim believes that urbanization creates organic social solidarity (Kleinberg 69-71).

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Materials for Louis Wirth not uploaded by client; no title given for the book containing the two article sources used to answer question three Urban Sociology: Questions and Answers Question one: how did the classical theorists in urban sociology (durkheim, simmel, and wirth) explain urban development and what did they think were the consequences of urbanization on the forms of social solidarity? How do the findings of the urban ethonographic research tradition compare with the classical theory? How does claude fischer try to synthesize the traditions and what is your assessment of fisher's model?

Tags:urban, sociology, answers

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This paper provides an analysis of "The Economics of the Criminal Behavior of Young Adults" by Mark Gius, which states that young African-American individuals are more likely to indulge in crime when they are unemployed, lack adult guidance, have peer pressure, and no direction for ameliorating their lives economically and socially. It explores how there is need for better wages for members of the African-American community who can get jobs. It also states that there is a need to provide or create jobs for African-American youth, even if they have criminal records, to enable them to improve their lives and not waste themselves away by causing chaos in society.

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"Law enforcement like other institutions in the society plays a role in maintaining the economic situations of the African American youth. Individuals who do not manage to stay out of trouble are arrested and sentenced according to their individual crime (s). With this action, individuals are released after their sentences as demoralized individuals who cannot find themselves jobs. This is because of the fact that they have reached a stage at which social relations of theirs have deteriorated further, and most people who are aware that they have criminal records would not hire them."

Tags:jobs, african-americans, unemployment

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This paper focuses on the urban immigrant in the United States. It further discusses the sociological aspects of the urban immigrant. The paper discusses the issues of industrialization, culture, assimilation within society, the loss of jobs and discrimination against native minorities in the United States. It also discusses the changing sphere of sociological beliefs in relation to urban immigrants.

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"The lives of immigrants in the United States, and how those lives relate to the American society, is dependant upon several factors that culminate before and after arrival in this country. Sociologists perceive that there is a difference in an immigrant's survival in the United States if they elect to come here, or if they were brought here by force because of issues that were life threatening, or placed in exile by their homelands. The possibility of success for immigrants is further weighed against factors such as education, ability to speak English, connection to family, and the economic resources available. With the greatest number of immigrants to the United States selecting urban areas as home, these factors become significant within American cities."

Tags:immigration, urban, sociology

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This paper explores the concept of social exclusion in urban areas. According to the paper, there are plenty of examples of how social activities shape a city. These changes in turn determine the shape of social activities.

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"Urban areas provide for a wide range of social, political, economic and spatial relationships. One of the relationships that develops in urban areas is social exclusion. In Urban Canada Harry H. Hiller argues, The term social exclusion has become an inclusive shorthand to refer to the syndrome of poverty and multiple deprivations, including lack of employment, low income, poor housing and health, and limited access..."

Tags:urban, sociology, exam

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This paper discusses the key forces of changes and trends in Canada, particularly in the Waterloo Region, in the area of urban and regional planning practice. The paper takes into account changes in the local and national economy, demographics, sociology, culture, technology and population growth, politics institutions and environment. It discusses the importance of urban planning representing the community in all its elements of age, culture, gender and race. The paper contains graphs and tables.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Key Trends
Economics
Infrastructure
Marketplace Cycles
Global Marketplace
Technology
Environment
Political-Institutional
Socio-Cultural
Demographics
Implications
Summary and Conclusions

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"The Waterloo Region should be planning for the public interest. As discussed above, in a metropolitan area such as the Waterloo region, planners should represent the various segments of the population as a whole, in age, culture and occupation. In the case of planning for the region, demography becomes the guide for the future. Those who represent the citizens must share the interests of both residents and commercial interests, and create a long-range plan which benefits the community both fiscally and in quality of life. These planners must account for differences in interests among neighborhoods, individuals and developmental forces. Accounting for the values and facts that face them and challenge them will help them make wise decisions. Both the public and the private sectors must be represented and accommodated in future plans."

Tags:infrastructure, demographics, population, society

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This paper seeks to illustrate that ethnic economies shape the urban landscape in many ways. Specifically, the paper argues that ethnic economies - to the extent that they can represent things other than mere economic activity - allow for the re-organization of the social space of a community, with different parts of the same town assuming the trappings of the particular group that resides there. In the end, the paper concludes, ethnic economies, when viewed in their totality, dramatically re-order urban landscapes in ways that are sociological and metaphysical as well as economic and tangible.

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"Ethnic economies shape the urban landscape in many ways. Specifically, this paper will argue that ethnic economies - to the extent that they can represent things other than mere economic activity - allow for the re-organization of the social space of a community, with different parts of the same town assuming the trappings of the particular group that resides there. Moreover, ethnic economies bind together a community at all levels and, more or less, in all ways; furthermore, the ethnic economy (which this writer chooses to interpret as having intellectual, sociological, social and perceptual dimensions as well as a merely ..."

Tags:city, money, group, integration