A Perspective on Urban Sociology

Pahl, R. E.

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“…Since the 1950s, for example, readers have appeared in cultural geography (Wagner & Mikesell, 1962), economic geography (Roepke, 1967), population geography (Demko et al, 1970), urban geography and urban studies (Mayer & Kohn, 1959;Berry & Horton, 1970;Bourne, 1971;Loewenstein, 1971;Scientific American, 1973;Bourne & Simmons, 1978;Cochrane et al, 1981;Blowers et al, 1982), urban sociology (Hatt & Reiss, 1951Pahl, 1968;Cousins & Nagpaul, 1970), human geography (Blunden, 1978;Massey, 1984), spatial analysis (Berry & Marble, 1968), world urbanism (Fava, 1968;Breese, 1972;Dwyer, 1974), Third World studies (Prothero, 1972), development studies (Hambidge, 1964;Mountjoy, 1971;Bernstein, 1973), planning theory (Faludi, 1973), radical geography (Peet, 1977), the geography curriculum (Ball et al, 1971;Williams, 1976), computer assisted learning (Unwin & Wood, 1990), GIS (Peuquet & Marble, 1990) and women and environment (Sontheimer, 1991).…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Student reading and course readers in geography

Shepherd

Bleasdale

1993

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Student reading is frequently seen as a major component of study in higher education, yet the amount actually undertaken frequently falls short of teacher expectations. The use of course readers to encourage and support student reading in geography courses is described and details of one institution's practice are provided as a guide to others of the benefits and pitfalls involved. The authors' expectations of the value and limitations of readers are tested by means of a student evaluation exercise and some reflections are made on their likely future.

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Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Student reading and course readers in geography

Shepherd

Bleasdale

1993

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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“…(3) States also influence the power relations underlying local policy arenas (Pahl, 1968(Pahl, , 1970Szeléyni, 1981Szeléyni, , 1983Stone, 1989;King and Szeléyni, 2004). In keeping with a general assumption of regime theorists (Stone, 1989;Harding, 1994), power in capitalist cities tends to be drawn from two basic sources: public sector and the market.…”

Section: Redistributive Logicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Growth and Exclusion in Technopolis: Managing Inequalities in Toulouse, France

Nicholls

2006

City & Community

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As high technology development has created important resources and opportunities for some residents of cities, it has also introduced a new set of barriers and constraints for others. The new inequalities resulting from this pathway of economic development present local public officials with important challenges for managing their cities. This article argues that local strategies to confront inequalities in high technology cities are dependent on how individual states have undertaken restructuring reforms over the last 30 years. In France, the state has ceded some control over the allocation of economic resources to markets while retaining some control over the allocation of welfare resources. The rising importance of markets and the continued centrality of a redistributive state in French cities have resulted in the formation of distinct types of policy communities in the areas of economic development and welfare. The former community operates according to an entrepreneurial logic and the latter community continues to operate according to a political/statist logic. These local policy communities are like two ships passing in the night, embedded in and responding to distinct institutional constraints that lead them in very different directions.

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“…His interest is in how classes and class relations are made and in doing so he seeks to reinterpret some of the classic texts. He argues that the work of Pahl (1965;1970), Newby et al (1978), and Saunders et al (1978) portrays how a national class structure can be interpreted in different local areas. This marginalises local social processes and gives the misleading impression that "somehow the middle class is made elsewhere (in the workplace) and simply arrives in rural England already formed" (Murdoch, this issue, page 1223).…”

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Guest Editorial

Flynn¹,

Marsden²

1995

Environ Plan A

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Rural change, regulation, and sustainability Social scientists engaged in rural research encounter two common problems. The first is the (misconception that rural areas are marked by continuity rather than change. The second is that in the urban industrialised nations of northern Europe and North America the very use of the word 'rural' is anachronistic. Some years ago Urry (1984) trenchantly argued, to the Rural Economy and Society Study Group, that the notion of rural as applied to localities is weak and lacks any theoretical coherence. Paradoxically he did not so much undermine the value of rural research as to help to set a new agenda. What followed has been one of the most active and productive periods of rural research in Britain, one in which researchers have sought to engage in wider social science debates. Researchers, for the most part, do not persist with rural studies out of stubborness. Rather, rural areas have been subject to profound changes which are worthy of study in their own right. Equally, such areas provide a particularly fascinating backcloth against which to discuss and interpret processes of change in advanced societies. The rural is a dynamic categorisation-not a static geographical one-in which it is conceptualised as an outcome of political, social, and economic processes and which give it meaning. Today, research is advancing on a broad front but here we want to address two themes: regulation and the state, and agricultural sustainability. As the contributions to this issue indicate, rural research is anything but introspective.

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A Perspective on Urban Sociology

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

Student reading and course readers in geography

Student reading and course readers in geography

Between Growth and Exclusion in Technopolis: Managing Inequalities in Toulouse, France

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