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- Title
The Future of Urban Sociology.
- Authors
May, Tim; Perry, Beth; Le Galès, Patrick; Sassen, Saskia; Savage, Mike
- Abstract
The article focuses on urban sociology. Sociologists have positioned themselves as prominent critics and reformists of urban society, intimately connected with the identification and resolution of endemic problems and social issues. The aim of the symposium is to explore whether recent years have seen a crisis in urban sociology and to build an understanding of future potential in the context of historical trajectory and current challenges. The notion of crisis in urban sociology is partly rooted in the evolving nature of urban issues over the course of the 20th century and the resultant rise in interdisciplinary studies of the city. The study of urban phenomena is no longer the province of any one discipline in a complex socio-economic climate marked by re-shifting notions of scale between the global and the local, increasing emphasis on interconnectivity, networks, infrastructures and flows and concern with interdependence and sustainability.
- Subjects
URBAN sociology; CITIES &; towns; SOCIAL sciences; CONFERENCES &; conventions; SOCIAL scientists; INTERDISCIPLINARY education
- Publication
Sociology, 2005, Vol 39, Issue 2, p343
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038505050544