Category: Urban Sociology

  • David Harvey’s “The Condition of Postmodernity” (1989)

    Modernity and Modernism, from David Harvey’s “ The Condition of Postmodernity ” (1989) Marxist geographer David Harvey can be regarded as one of the earliest theorists of the postmodern condition. Harvey, in his book mentioned above, discusses the postmodern condition with respect to various critical ideas that contributed to the epistemology of the postmodern condition….

  • LIVING IN A WORLD RISK SOCIETY ( SUMMARY ) – ULRICH BECK

    Living in a society we may encounter several kinds of risks, these risks can be ecological (relation of living organisms to one another) and financial (relating to finance). In the debate about the climate change after the discovery of CFCs, chemists Rowland and Molina put forth that CFCs destroy the ozone layer which results in…

  • The Social Construction of Reality – Summary Notes

    The Social Construction of Reality Part 1: The Reality of Everyday Life The basic purpose is to sociologically analyze the concept of reality, but the understanding reality is quite the task. The approach to understanding reality should be through common sense as reality is available to the members of the society who possess common sense….

  • URBANISM AS A WAY OF LIFE – SUMMARY

    Urbanization has brought a major impact on the lives of people. It can be both advantages and disadvantages. Urbanization is at its peak in the United States. City life coincides with the urban modes of life. There is diversity in city life and the people are heterogeneous with different perspectives, aspirations, and goals in life….

  • Social Science: Meaning, Branches, Examples, Scope, Career

    Social science becomes a part of our lives as soon as we enter the sixth standard in our school. We get introduced to social science through the divisions of subjects like History, Geography, and Civics. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, an introductory phase. In reality, the world of Social Science is…

  • American vs Classical Liberalism: Definition, Examples, Thinkers

    Liberalism is considered to be an ideology whereby liberty, equality before law and consent of government and equality before the law. This article mainly focuses on Classical Liberalism and Modern Liberalism and how they are different from one another. Classical Liberalism   Classical Liberalism is considered to be a political Ideology that propagates the concepts…

  • The Structure of Families and Households in the UK

    Family can be defined as “a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings” (Barnard, 2021). Family also plays a role in influencing and affecting the development, behaviour, and…