TITLE:
The Social Structure of the City: A Critical Review of Contributing Sociologists
AUTHORS:
Kamani Priyangika Mathotaarachchi, Karawita Arachchige Akalanka Nuwan Thilakarathna
KEYWORDS:
Urban Sociology, City, Globalization
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.9 No.2,
May
24,
2021
ABSTRACT: The
idea of a city has changed over the course of human evolution and in modern
times finding a definition as to what is exactly meant by a city has become a
really difficult task. A city is signified not only by the structural
differences it resembles something which is not accepted as a city for not
having a physical built environment surrounded by concrete buildings and
stagnation of office spaces, instead a city signifies a social reality and the
interactions thereof, by which people come to differentiate a city from
something which is not. This paper looks at
the different definitions and ideologies brought forward by an urban
sociologist in analysing the city while looking at the ecological, cultural and
new urban sociological ideologies in defying and identifying the concept of a
city.