Urban Sociology: A Trend Report

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The paper reviews the disintegration of urban sociology as a recognisable domain of study in the early 1980s and its development as urban studies - an interdisciplinary research field with global reference and infinite scope. At the same time there was a re-entry of the `local' and more specifically the `urban' into the sociological mainstream as there was greater awareness of uneven development, the particularity of local experience and the possibilities of mobilisation around local issues. In particular there was awareness that `race' politics was also an `urban' politics. The problematic of the slumghetto sharpened in focus and there was increasing recourse to American research and policy initiatives in regenerating the cities. Increasingly, it is argued, sociology will have to be alert to the issues of urbanisation, in particular the everyday appreciation that monopoly of locations, symbolically or otherwise, confers power.

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