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Being urban : a sociology of city life / David A. Karp [and three others].
LIBRA HT123 .K37 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karp, David A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- United States.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
- Contents:
- Part I Issues and Perspectives in Urban Sociology 1
- Chapter 1 Classical Conceptions of Urban Life 3
- Chapter 2 Classical Observations of Urban Life 23
- Part II Experiencing City Life 51
- Chapter 3 The Rediscovery of Community 53
- Chapter 4 The Social Organization of Everyday City Life 87
- Chapter 5 Lifestyle Diversity and Urban Tolerance 119
- Chapter 6 Women in Cities 149
- Part III Urban Institutions and Social Change 173
- Chapter 7 Power, Politics, and Problems 175
- Chapter 8 Sports and Urban Life 219
- Chapter 9 Arts in the City 251
- Chapter 10 New Urban Dynamics: Gentrification, Suburbanization, Globalization, and the Federal Divestiture 273.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275956479
- 0275956474
- 9780275956547
- 0275956547
- OCLC:
- 904194446
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