Urbanism as a Way of Life

Claude S. Fischer
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Claude S. Fischer: University of California (Berkeley)

Sociological Methods & Research, 1972, vol. 1, issue 2, 187-242

Abstract: Louis Wirth's classic description of the social and psychological effects of urbanism is organized into a model for the purpose of reviewing relevant theory and empirical research. Evidence on predicted structural effects (differentiation, formal integration and anomie) and individual effects (sensory overload, role mobility, isolation and deviance) is, at most, mixed. The best-supported predictions are of differentiation and deviance. Alternative models of urban life are explored, and, in the process of the review, research directions are suggested.

Date: 1972
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DOI: 10.1177/004912417200100203

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