Experiencing Cities (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Hutter, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205816851 ISBN 13: 9780205816859

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

For undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology.

 

A  social psychological perspective informed by political economy encourages sociological understanding of the city and suburb in the past and in the contemporary world.

 

Experiencing Cities is an introduction to urban sociology based heavily on microsociology and symbolic interaction theory–emphasizing the way people experience the urban world in their everyday lives, interact with one another, and create meaning from the physical and human environments of their cities.

 

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About this title

About the Author

Mark Hutter is a professor of sociology at Rowan University and has served as coordinator of the Bantivoglio Honors Program. He teaches and has an active and ongoing research agenda in both urban studies and family sociology and has extensively published and presented papers in these areas. He is the author of The Changing Family 3rd ed (Allyn and Bacon, 1998) and the editor of The Family Experience 4th ed (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). His scholarship and pedagogical involvement in the field of family studies has received international recognition with the award of the National Council on Family Relations’ Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies in 2004. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society.

Review

Thank you to our reviewers!

 

Donna Bird, University of Southern Maine

Walter Carroll, Bridgewater State College

Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University- Schuylkill

Mark Hardt, Montana State University-Billings

 

 

"The text emphasizes some areas -- such as the city as a work of art -- that other texts ignore.  I have a very favorable overall impression of this material. To my mind, this is the strongest of the urban sociology texts available." 

Walter Carroll, Bridgewater State College

 

“It is accessible, informative, and has good depth. The scope of information covered is considerable, and yet remains comprehensive and organized.”

Mark Hardt, Montana State University, Billings

 

“My overall impressions are very positive. The synthesis of interactionism and political economy seems the right way to go.”

Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill

 

“I liked this textbook, the students in the class liked the textbook; in fact, I received a number of totally unsolicited thumbs ups on this book over the course of the semester. It's well-written and well-organized, interesting to read.”

Donna Bird, University of Southern Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0205816851
• ISBN 13: 9780205816859
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 496