URBAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF THE CLASSICAL GERMAN AND CHICAGO SCHOOL Cover Image

URBANA SOCIOLOGIJA U RADOVIMA KLASIČNE NJEMAČKE I ČIKAŠKE SOCIOLOGIJE
URBAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF THE CLASSICAL GERMAN AND CHICAGO SCHOOL

Author(s): Alisabri Šabani
Subject(s): Epistemology, Social history, Social psychology and group interaction, History and theory of sociology, Social Theory, Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Social Norms / Social Control, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Fakultet za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studije Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: City; metropolis; urban person; social control; adaptation; urbanism as a way of life;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the contributions of German classical sociologist to urban sociology at the beginning of the last century, with particular emphasis on the work of Georg Simmel. Highlights the fact that they much influenced to the work of R.E. Park and L. Wirth, as the central figure in the Chicago classical urban sociology. Despite the fact that the German and Chicago urban experience is different, the urban theory represents continuity in these traditions. Modern thinking on urban are unthinkable without reflection on these traditions.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 12-30
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian