Syllabus (SOCIOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-6

Semester: 5

Course Code: BSOCMAJ06T

Course Title: Urban sociology

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: • To introduce an understanding of the urban patterns of living. • To identify the various settlements, cultural scapes associated with urbanity. • To begin a theoretical orientation of urban sociology.

Learning Outcome: • Scholars shall be benefitted in having a deeper understanding of how the processes of urbanization shape our everyday lives. • The transitional analysis of the rural and urban is relevant to the contemporary scenario of our country; hence this gives

Contents of the Course

1. Defining Urban and Rural, Rural-Urban Dichotomy and Continuum; Classification of Urban Settlements.
2. Defining and Classifying: City; Megalopolis; Global City; Smart City; Edge City; Slums; Ghetto; Shanty Towns; Third World Urbanisation.
3. Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology: Proto-Urban Contrasts; The German Perspective; Chicago School; Network Society.
4. Migration: Definition; Types of Migration; Diaspora.
5. Urbanism, Urbanisation and Industrialisation; Changing Patterns; Risk.
6. Gender and Urban Spaces.

Readings and References

1. Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life. American journal of sociology, 44(1), 1-24.
2. Paddison, R. (Ed.). (1998). Handbook of urban studies. Sage.
3. Castells, M., & Castells, M. (1978). City, class and power (pp. 167-173). Macmillan Education UK.
4. Lin, J., & Mele, C. (Eds.). (2012). The urban sociology reader. Routledge
5. Flanagan, W. G. (2010). Urban sociology: images and structure. Rowman & Littlefield.
6. Bolay, J. C. (2006). Slums and urban development: Questions on society and globalisation. The European Journal of Development Research, 18(2), 284-298.
7. Gottdiener, M., Budd, L., & Lehtovuori, P. (2015). Key concepts in urban studies. Sage.
8. Castells, M. (1977). The urban question: A Marxist approach (Vol. 1). London: Edward Arnold.
9. Castells, M., & Blackwell, C. (1998). The information age: economy, society and culture. Volume 1. The rise of the network society. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 25, 631-636.
10. Harvey, D. (2009). Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. Columbia University Press.
11. Ryan, M. T., Hutchison, R., &Gottdiener, M. (2018). The new urban sociology. Routledge.
12. Featherstone, M. (2012). Global and local cultures. In Mapping the futures (pp. 184-202). Routledge.
13. Gottdiener, M., Hohle, R., & King, C. (2019). The new urban sociology. Routledge.
14. Reitzes, D. C. (1992). Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, by David A. Karp, Gregory P. Stone, and William C. Yoels.
15. Stevenson, D. (2003). Cities and urban cultures. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
16. Charlesworth, E. (2006). City Edge: Contemporary Discourses on Urbanism. Taylor & Francis.
17. Garreau, J. (2011). Edge city: Life on the new frontier. Anchor.
18. Thorns, D. C. (2017). The transformation of cities: urban theory and urban life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
19. Levin, M. R., Forgan, S., Hessler, M., Kargon, R. H., & Low, M. (2010). Urban modernity: cultural innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. MIT Press.
20. Saunders, P. (2003). Social theory and the urban question. Routledge.
21. Munshi, I. (2022). Patrick Geddes’ contribution to sociology and urban planning: Vision of a city. Routledge.
22. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K., &Sigona, N. (Eds.). (2014). The Oxford handbook of refugee and forced migration studies. OUP Oxford.
23. Koser, K. (2007). International migration: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
24. Kenny, K. (2013). Diaspora: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.