The Urban Sociology Reader

Lin, Jan

ISBN 10: 0415323436 / ISBN 13: 9780415323437

Published by Routledge, 2005

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:9780415323437.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Urban Sociology Reader
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415323436
• ISBN 13: 9780415323437
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 950 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

About this title

Synopsis

The urban world is a provocative terrain on which to contemplate the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed over the last 200 years. This Reader traverses this terrain through sections on urban social theory, social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and the world system and urban social movements.

Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Reader includes forty significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries.

Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, until now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry; introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.

About the Author

Jan Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.