Encyclopaedia of Urban & Rural Sociology

The quality of city life depends on many fac- tors, but one of the most important factors is a person’s social background: social class, race and ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. These dimensions of our social backgrounds often yield many kinds of so- cial inequalities, and the quality of life that city residents enjoy depends heavily on these dimensions. The book presents the key con- cepts of rural and urban sociology in the form of evaluation and analysis made by eminent sociologists.