Sociology © 1973 The University of Chicago Press Abstract This investigation treates the plausibility of "structural" and "tension" analyses of the relationships among crimes against persons‚ crimes against property‚ collective violence‚ urban population‚ and urban growth. It treats France during the century after 1830. Over the long run‚ crimes against property appear to have declined
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Anthropologie – Introduction and Overview Urban Outfitters‚ Inc. is a publicly traded American company that owns and operates over 400 retail locations in all of their stores divisions. The five retail brands they have are Urban Outfitters‚ Anthropologie‚ Free People‚ Terrain‚ and BHLDN. Urban Oufitters have about 170 locations now and is continuously growing. The reason why they have become so successful is because of their passion of whom they stand for as a company. In addition‚ they seek to
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expresses Eliot’s Modernist concerns about the lack of morals and values in modern society through the use of personas within the urban landscape and the urban society. Modern man’s lifestyle of repetition of trivial tasks and the lack of meaningful things in life is represented and emphasised through the use of alliteration‚ metaphor‚ fragmentation and word choice. The urban landscape is employed by Eliot in Preludes to demonstrate the isolated desertion of a modern city. The use of repetition in “the
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Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired to 10 percent of families across the entire United States) and that the probability of being victimized
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The urban legend of Grace Sherwood better known as “The Pungo Witch” is a tale that still contains a fair level of accuracy. However‚ due to this story being told many times over‚ and not having an exact account of what actually transpired; it has evolved into an urban legend. There is a debate regarding the validity of this story being an actual urban legend‚ mainly because the original depiction has not altered throughout the course of time‚ the fundamental facts are still evident and the characters
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reflects upon urban life and how society has developed since the establishment of cities. Paradoxically‚ the title‚ “Living with Strangers”‚ refers to the fact that Hustvedt is living and sharing some quite intimate moments with her fellow New Yorkers‚ yet they are completely isolated from one another‚ implying that society is closed and segregated. Like many other essays‚ “Living with Strangers” consists of 3 parts: An introduction and elaboration with two different aspects on urban life‚ and a concluding
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the implementation of the Chicago Plan. We first to talk about the purpose and the significance of Chicago Plan. Chicago Plan is the correct route to guide the future development for this city. And this plan is the greatest plan in the American. Urban planning is the basis of all business and social problems. The Chicago plan solves the important problems for our congestion‚ transportation‚ and public health. This plan will eliminate the crowding streets in the city‚ thereby promoting the health
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MODERNITY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY LUTGARDA L. TOLENTINO Philippines being a third world country strive for development and hunger for progress. Since the discussion in the article is not quite familiar to me‚ I just focus on its content based on what I understood. It says that we need to handle modernization properly to have a so-called progressive country. Well‚ Is modernization totally answers the problem in our society? There are many programs that our government established
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Sociology 240- Ethnography Assignment 2 1 October 10‚ 2012 5:00pm- 5:40 pm New York Public Transit A train This paper will serve to report my observation on the New York City public transportation letter A train line. I see that a lot of people have headphones in their ears‚ reading magazines‚ reading books‚ newspapers and on their phones. The guy sitting next to me to my right is reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing
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Causes and Effects of Uncontrolled Urbanization If you are an urban dweller‚ you may know the real meaning of urbanization. However‚ this does not always indicate your sufficient insight in the “uncontrolled urbanization” topic too. To form a causal chain‚ it is right to say that more jobs‚ more services in the urban side and absence of land in the countryside force people to migrate to larger cities which brings about uncontrolled urbanization. As a result‚ some problems arise such as
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