Urban Sociology

Comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Sociology covering sociological theory, social stratification, research methods, deviance and crime, family, urban sociology, education, medical sociology, and contemporary issues

Urban Sociology

Urbanization and the Growth of Cities

Chicago School, Simmel on the metropolis, urban ecology (Park & Burgess), global cities (Sassen), megacities, slums, urban planning

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The Chicago School and Urban Ecology

Robert Park's *The City* (1925), Ernest Burgess's concentric-zone model, the concept of natural areas, and subsequent critiques of urban ecology.

Community, Neighborhoods, and Gentrification

Tonnies Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft, Putnam's social capital decline, neighborhood effects (Wilson), gentrification theories, displacement, community organizing

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Gentrification and Neighborhood Change

Ruth Glass's 1964 coinage, Neil Smith's rent-gap theory, the displacement debate, super-gentrification, and contemporary anti-gentrification movements.

Housing, Spatial Inequality, and Segregation

Residential segregation, redlining, suburbanization, homelessness, housing policy, environmental racism, the right to the city (Lefebvre)

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Global Cities and World-System Urbanism

Saskia Sassen's *The Global City* (1991), Friedmann's world-cities hypothesis, GaWC rankings, and the command-and-control functions that make certain cities nodes of the world economy.