Sociology › Section T · Population, cities, and environment › Topic T.2
Urbanization
For most of history nearly everyone lived in the countryside. Today far more people live in cities and towns than ever before, and sociologists ask how cities grow, how they sort people into neighbourhoods, and what city life does to social relationships.
In this topic
- A world of cities
- From the first cities to industrial ones
- Suburbs, exurbs and sprawl
- Gentrification
- Urbanization around the world
- Worked example: why did Jakarta overtake Tokyo?
- Functionalism and human ecology
- Conflict theory and the growth machine
- Interactionism and city life
- Worked example: testing the concentric zone model
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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