Download Understanding Urban Sociology: A Comprehensive Study of City Life and more Lecture notes Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Page | 1 UNDERSTAND AND KNOW URBAN SOCIOLOGY So far, we have always heard many people say everything related to cities. Starting from economic, social, humanitarian activities, to things involving elements of vandalism and violence in the form of conflict, disagreement, both between individuals and individuals, individuals and groups, or groups and groups. So with all the problems and activities in cities, we enter the Urban Sociology course. Where in this course we will examine in depth all the ins and outs of urban life. Understanding Sociology, Cities, and Urban Sociology. Sociology is defined by Pitirim A. Sorokin as a science that studies things such as relationships and reciprocal influences between various kinds of social phenomena. For example, between economic phenomena and religion, family and morals, law and economics, and social movements and politics. The relationship and reciprocal influence between social symptoms and non-social symptoms. For example, geographical and biological phenomena. General characteristics of all types of social phenomena. Selo Soemardjan and Soelaeman Soemardi argue that sociology is a science that studies the social structure of social processes, including social changes. Roucek and Warren provide the definition of sociology as a science that Page | 2 studies the relationships between humans and groups. Sociology according to J. A.A. Van Doorn and C.J. Lammers is the science of stable societal structures and processes. Then the definition of a city according to experts is that, for example, Max Weber believes that a city is a place where its residents can fulfill most of their economic needs in the local market. These goods must be produced by residents from the interior and bought and sold in the market. So the most important characteristic of a city according to Max Weber is the existence of a market as a fortress, which has a legal system and other things that are cosmopolitan in nature. Cristaller with his "Central Place Theory" states that cities function to provide services for their surrounding areas. It can be concluded from this theory that the city is a service center. Being a center depends on how far the area around the city utilizes the provision of city services. From this view cities are arranged in a hierarchy of different types. According to Prof. Bintarto city can be interpreted as a network system of human life which is characterized by heterogeneous socio-economic strata and a materialistic style or it can also be interpreted as a cultural stronghold created by natural and non-natural elements with symptoms of quite large disconnection between the population and its characteristics. life that is heterogeneous and materialistic compared to the areas behind it. From the
