Being Urban examines the dynamic interplay between what theoretical perceptions tell us about urban life and how ordinary people interpret and respond to the actual experience of living in cities. A major focus of inquiry is the strategies people use to create "community" in an environment where, many theorists believe, only alienation and progressive disintegration are possible. In the second edition of this important work, the authors have expanded their commitment to interdisciplinary perspectives and have also included chapters on significant topics that have been largely neglected in urban sociology. Part I provides a review of the themes of urban sociology developed by nineteenth-century classic theorists and early American social scientists. In Part II, the authors look at selected aspects of everyday city life, including the bases of community, the primacy of social interaction for an understanding of urban life, and conditions that produce the breakdown of urban tolerance for diversity of cultures and lifestyles. A new chapter in Part II studies women's experiences in cities. Part III explores institutional structures of urban life and broad patterns of cultural change. A fascinating chapter focuses on power, stratification, and class structure in cities, while a new chapter analyzes the role of sports in urban life. The final chapter discusses city life in the postindustrial era, and the demographic, cultural, and historical factors that lie behind the ongoing transformation of American cities. This new edition offers a balanced treatment that avoids the anti-urban bias characteristic of much that has been written on the subject. Being Urban is appropriate for professionals and academics concerned with urban life, as well as for courses in urban sociology.
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“I welcome the (second edition) of Being Urban and hope it will continue to introduce students to the dynamic character of social interaction in cities and the active role of individuals in constructing their urban social worlds. Karp, Stone, and Yoels light the path, now it is up to us...to explore the way.”–Symbolic Interaction
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DAVID A. KARP is Professor of Sociology at Boston College.
The late GREGORY P. STONE was Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and co-authored the first edition of Being Urban.
WILLIAM C. YOELS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and co-authored the first edition of Being Urban.
The late GREGORY P. STONE was Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and co-authored the first edition of Being Urban.
WILLIAM C. YOELS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and co-authored the first edition of Being Urban.
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urban tolerance, urban persons, social area analysis, urban social relations, civil inattention, ecological segregation, social bargain, urban sociologists, older industrial cities, controlled contact, everyday urban life, kin work, ghetto underclass, community identification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, San Francisco, World War, Los Angeles, Louis Wirth, Civil War, Lyn Lofland, Progressive Era, Georg Simmel, Times Square, Erving Goffman, Industrial Revolution, New Jersey, Playground Movement, West End House, Beacon Hill, Brooklyn Dodgers, Bureau of the Census, Edward Hall, Emile Durkheim, Hull House, Kansas City, Max Weber, New Haven New!
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- Sociology and Everyday Life by David A. Karp in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children by Viviana A. Zelizer on page 200, and Back Matter
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- Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness by David A. Karp in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective by Daniel Monti on page 51, page 120, and page 121
- The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness by David A. Karp on page 272, and Back Matter
- The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness by David A. Karp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Desmond Harding in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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