Urban Sociology in Transition

Makes an effort to systematically incorporate both the structural (new urban sociology) and cultural (human ecology) approaches in urban sociology. This volume is divided into two sections, the first presenting work by urban ecologists, the second presenting work by persons working within the broad contours of the new urban sociology.

Contributors to the volume. The crisis of urban sociology (R. Hutchison). Human Ecology and Social Ecology. Recent empirical and theoretical developments in sociological human ecology (W.A. Schwab). Neighborhood succession: theory and patterns (D.J. Hartman). Embattled neighborhoods: the political ecology of neighborhood chance (K.P. Schwirian, G.S. Mesch). Spatial structure and the urban experience: ecology and the new urban sociology (M. La Gory). The New Urban Sociology. The political economy of housing: all the discomforts of home (G.D. Squires). Protest movements and urban theory (E.L. Hirsch). World cities: a political economy/global approach (D.A. Smith, M. Timberlake). Marxian urban sociology and the new approaches to space (M. Gottdiener). The Question of Convergence in Urban Sociology. The structural roots of action and the question of convergence (W.G. Flanagan).