Urban Sociology

Discourses of Urban Improvement

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Friday Jun 02 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

Urban development and municipal initiatives are awash with buzzwords as cities strive to become more liveable, sustainable, and moreover marketable. While urban planners and developers pitch new builds as catering ... more

Social Control of Space

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Thursday Jun 01 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

Cities represent unique spaces where a wide array of social control measures and mechanisms can be implemented and deployed. As one of the most visible forms of social control, the ... more

Spaces of Sociability: Copresence in Urban Public Spaces

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Friday Jun 02 10:30 am to 12:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

While much contemporary social scientific work on social interaction foregrounds the role of digital technologies in both maintaining and disrupting social ties across physical distance, this literature tends to set ... more

The Sociology of the City - New Directions in a Historic Subfeild

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Thursday Jun 01 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

Since its inception sociology has been concerned with questions of cities and urbanization. From the writings of Weber, Simmel, and Dubois to the early Chicago School thinkers, many of the ... more

The State of Canadian Urban Sociology

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Urban sociology offers a unique disciplinary approach that explains urban reality through various theoretical and methodological frameworks, research sites, and levels of analysis. Urban sociology, however, is often dominated by ... more