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9780333971604

Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity Second Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780333971604

  • ISBN10:

    0333971604

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-16
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr

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Summary

This long-awaited second edition of the highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent theoretical debated and new empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates the substantial new literature on urban inequality, urban culture, urban politics, and globalization.

Author Biography

Mike Savage and Alan Warde are Professors of Sociology, and Kevin Ward is Lecturer in the School of Geography, all at the University of Manchester

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction
1(6)
The Roots of Urban Sociology
7(30)
The development of urban sociology 1900-30
8(14)
The decline of urban sociology: towards the 1990s
22(9)
Urban sociology and beyond: the new millennium
31(3)
Conclusion
34(3)
Cities and Uneven Economic Development
37(33)
Limits to evolutionary theories of cities
38(6)
Competing explanations of uneven development
44(23)
Conclusion
67(3)
Inequality and Social Organisation in the City
70(36)
Urban space and segregation
71(3)
Ghettoisation
74(8)
Suburbanisation and gentrification
82(14)
Changing inequalities? Polarisation, exclusion and survival strategies
96(8)
Conclusion
104(2)
Perspectives on Urban Culture
106(29)
Louis Wirth and the `urban way of life'
107(15)
Simmel and metropolitan culture
122(5)
The culture of modernity
127(6)
Conclusion
133(2)
Urban Culture and the Regeneration of Urban Meaning
135(18)
Urban meaning
135(5)
Urban meaning and the power of `aura'
140(6)
Globalisation and urban meaning
146(5)
Conclusion
151(2)
Urban Politics
153(45)
States, markets, welfare and workfare
160(9)
Local states and economic development
169(16)
Place, political identification and urban participation
185(11)
Conclusion
196(2)
Conclusion: Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity
198(7)
Bibliography 205(20)
Index 225

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