The Urban Community (Classic Reprint): Selected Papers From the Proceedings of the American Sociological Society, 1925 - Couverture souple

Ernest Watson Burgess

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330302389 ISBN 13 : 9781330302385

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Urban Community

As a matter of fact, the city has been the happy hunting ground of movements: the better-government movement, the social-work movement, the public-health movement, the playground movement, the social-center movement, the settlement movement, the Americanization movement. All these movements, lacking a basic understanding or conception of the city, have relied upon administrative devices, for the most part, to correct the evils of city life. Even the community organization movement, theoretically grounded upon a conception of the city as a unit, had the misfor tune to stake its program upon an assumption of the supreme value of the revival of the neighborhood in the city instead of upon a prag matic, experimental program guided by studies of actual conditions and trends in urban life.

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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 theS ociety were organized around the subject The City theE xecutive 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. It is probably not merely a historical accident that the systematic study of rural life has preceded by more than a decade the sociological study of the city. I ndeed, the center of gravity of the country-life movement had been from the start not in the solution of the economic problems of the farmer, nor even in social reform in the narrower sense of that term, but in the cultural life of the rural community and its development in response to the changing economic and social situation. The work of Butterfield, Galpin, and Gillette, to mention only three pioneer rural sociologists, has been more concerned with the analysis and the description of the economic, social, and cultural organization of the rural community than with the more technical matters of scientific agriculture, of the administration of co-operative enterprises, or of rural health and social work. The absence of a corresponding urban-life movement may be attributed to several causes.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330302389
• ISBN 13: 9781330302385
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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