“A Dualistic Vision”: Robert Ezra Park and the Classical Ecological Theory of Social Inequality

Helmes-Hayes, Richard C.

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1987.tb00302.x

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“…In the works of Robert E. Park and other members of the Chicago School of sociology (CSS), considerations of power and inequality were neglected or seen as outgrowths of competition between groups within a social space that was conceptualized as analogous to forests, fields and biomes. Likewise, deviance and social disorganization were often analogized to biological pathology and maladaptation (Helmes‐Hayes, ). Environmental historian Falck () has argued that weeds, or out‐of‐place plants, have been defined as a threat to be controlled in American cities, even as they took advantage of urbanized environments.…”

Section: Resituating Urban Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Weeds, Pheasants and Wild Dogs: Resituating the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit

Draus¹,

Roddy²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The Chicago School of urban sociology has been criticized for its over‐reliance on organic and ecological metaphors. We propose that a useful updated integration of urban sociology and ecology could be achieved with the aid of complementary concepts, such as patch dynamics and assemblage, from both fields. In this exploratory article, we draw on more than 50 qualitative interviews conducted with residents of three different Detroit neighborhoods, together with field observations, photographs and documentary evidence, to examine both actual and metaphorical references to the natural world. We consider allusions to ‘drug infestation’ as well as other references to territorialization processes and associations with plants and animals that emerged out of our interviews and interactions with neighborhood residents. In conclusion, we maintain that social science may have much to learn from contemporary ecological research, and that a resituated ecological paradigm would challenge and benefit contemporary urban research.

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Section: Resituating Urban Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Weeds, Pheasants and Wild Dogs: Resituating the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit

Draus¹,

Roddy²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Su konkrečia miesto vieta miestietį sieja ne gimtųjų namų, bet kaimynystės ryšys, kurį galima (nesunkiai) pakeisti persikėlus į kitą 19 R. Parko ekologinės miesto koncepcijos visapusišką vaizdą randame jo svarbiausių miesto studijų rinktinėje (Park 1952). Išsamių R. Parko ekologinės miesto koncepcijos eksplikacijų galima aptikti daugelio sociologų darbuose (Maines, Bridger and Ulmer 1996;Gaziano, 1996;Entrikin 1980;HelmesHayes 1987;Faught 1986;Breslau 1990;Goist 1971). 20 Atkreiptinas dėmesys, kad sociologinėje literatūroje egzistuoja modernybės sampratos daugialy pumas.…”

Section: Modernaus Miesto Struktūra Ekologinių Miesto Teorijų Veidrodyjeunclassified

“…Konkurencinga kooperacija skatina, iš vienos pusės, varžytis ekonomikos sektoriuje, iš kitos pusės, jungtis į koalicijas ir kurti bendrą moralinę tos pačios darbo jėgos ar vietos gyventojų santvarką (Park 1952;151-153). Šie teiginiai rodo, kad R. Parkas integruoja ekonominius, antropologinius ir sociologinius aiškinimus į bendrą miesto žmogiškąją ekologijos teoriją, kuria remiantis socioekonominės ir kartu gyvenamosios vietos skirtumų priežastys kyla iš kooperacinio ir konkurencingo elgesio (HelmesHayes 1987;389-390, 397-400;Faught 1986;360-365;Žilys 2015;22). Čikagos miesto sociologijos mokykla pabrėžia miesto populiacijos dydžio svarbą.…”

Section: Modernaus Miesto Struktūra Ekologinių Miesto Teorijų Veidrodyjeunclassified

Miesto ekosistemos sampratos transformacija: klasikinės ir šiuolaikinės miesto ekologijų atvejai

Žiemelis

2018

SMV

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Contemporary trends in urban development indicate that its processes rarely observe ecocentric perspectives, under which nature is considered as a value. This concept is represented by modern urban ecology. Meanwhile, the urban ecosystem, as a concept of a human system, is represented by classical urban ecology. The existence of different urban ecosystem concepts encourages a closer look at not only the differences between these concepts but also the circumstances that have led to this transformation process. The aim of this article is to analyze the concepts of an urban ecosystem in classical and modern urban ecology, focusing not only on the explication of the content of the concepts of urban ecosystem, but also on the social, cultural and economic conditions of the emergence of different concepts. This article reveals that the separation of urban ecosystem concepts was determined by the different sociocultural environment in which classical urban ecology and contemporary urban ecology have emerged. From the point of view of modern urban ecology, in order to explain the reasons for the emergence of global urban development problems and to search for solutions to them, the conceptual legacy of classical urban ecology, due to its anthropocentric orientation, not only cannot be of use anymore but also hinders in this search – that is, instead of solving problems, it makes them even worse.

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“…8 8. "A Dualistic Vision" (Helmes-Hayes, 1987) dealt with the early or "classical" period of the Chicago School. It described a vaguely formulated and somewhat implicit "classical ecological theory" of class that infused many of the Chicago empirical studies of the period.…”

Section: Class In Us Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The concept of social class: The contribution of Everett Hughes

Helmes-Hayes

2000

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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In French Canada in Transition (1943) and a set of related essays written between 1933 and 1941, Everett Hughes, a key figure in the “Second Chicago School” of sociology developed a novel and noteworthy conceptualization of social class. This contribution, which was not recognized outside of French‐language sociology in Quebec, was an integral element of Hughes's “interpretive institutional ecology” theoretical frame of reference. It combined elements of the classical ecological theory of class (human ecology, functionalism, Simmel), aspects of a Weber‐inspired analysis of class, status, and political power, and elements of a proto‐dependency analysis of Quebec's industrialization in the 1930s. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“A Dualistic Vision”: Robert Ezra Park and the Classical Ecological Theory of Social Inequality

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Weeds, Pheasants and Wild Dogs: Resituating the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit

Weeds, Pheasants and Wild Dogs: Resituating the Ecological Paradigm in Postindustrial Detroit

Miesto ekosistemos sampratos transformacija: klasikinės ir šiuolaikinės miesto ekologijų atvejai

The concept of social class: The contribution of Everett Hughes

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