The urban community

The urban community

, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, mixité sociale, démographie, ethnologie, immigration, Burgess Ernest W.

Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess : Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities and colleges, that a second edition was necessary. This year when the papers read at the main sessions of the Society were organized around the subject "The City" the Executive Committee, in anticipation of a like interest, authorized the publication of a special edition, to which it has seemed best to give the title The Urban Community. This volume may be taken, perhaps, as a prospectus of the present state and promise of sociological research in this field. The introductory paper by President Robert E. Park indicates the range of the materials for research represented in the papers which follow. At the same time, it seeks to chart and analyze the significance of the interrelationships of the different techniques of research, ecological, cultural, and statistical, which have been and are being applied to the study of the city. The main divisions of this volume mark off certain of these fields even more sharply: human nature and the city; the social biology of city life; statistics of the city; the ecology of the city. Contents : Introduction Robert E. Park - The urban community as a spacial pattern and a moral order Ellsworth Paris - The nature of human nature William I. Thomas - The problem of personality in the urban environment E.S. Bogardus - Social distance in the city Nicholas J. Spykman - A social philosophy of the city E.B. Renter - Sociology and biology E.H. Sutherland - The biological and sociological processes Roswell H. Johnson - The eugenics of the city Melville J. Herskovits - Some effects of social selection on the American negro Harvey W. Zorbaugh - The dweller in furnished rooms : An urban type Louis Wirth - Some Jewish types of personality Walter P. Willcox - A redefinition of 'city' in terms of density of population H.B. Woolston - American city birth-rates C.E. Gehlke - Some economic factors in the determination of the size of American cities Hornell Hart - The urban expectation of life in 2000 A.D. Ernest P. Goodrich - The statistical relationship between population and the city plan M. Gillette - The rate of growth of certain classes of cities in the United States LeRoy E. Bowman - Population mobility and community organization M.C. Elmer - Maladjustment of youth in relation to density of population R. D. McKenzie - The scope of human ecology N. S. B. Gras - The rise of the metropolitan community Walter C. Reckless - The distribution of commercialized vice in the city : A sociological analysis Shelby M. Harrison - Community participation in city and regional planning Harvey W. Zorbaugh - The natural areas of the city Cecil C. North - The city as a community : An introduction to a research project Clarence Arthur Perry - The local community as a unit in the planning of urban residential areas Niles Carpenter - The research resources of a typical American city as exemplified by the city of Buffalo B. B. Wessel - The study of ethnic factors in community life Stuart A. Queen - Segregation of population types in the Kansas City area M . Gillette - The effect of immigration upon the increase of population in the United States Pitirim A. Sorokin - Changes in occupation and economic status of several hundreds of American families during four generations Ernest W. Burgess was the Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago and published such works as 'Introduction to science of sociology' (1921) and 'The city' (1925).

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The University of Chicago Press

1926

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