Syllabus
Pune University Syllabus of - PG Courses, M.A Sociology-Semester-III,SO 015/016 Urban Society
Early Sociological Theory and the Urban Question
The Urban as an Ecological Community, Traditional and Neo-ecological school
Urban as a Cultural Form: Simmel, Wirth, Redfield and post modern urban sociology
Urban as a social-spatial system: Neo Weberians
Political Economy of the City: Enzo, Castells and Harvey
References:
1. Pickvance, C.G. (ed.): Urban Sociology: Critical Essays, London, Methuen, 1976, pp.85-173.
2. Dear, Michael and Scoot, Alan J. (eds.): Urbanisation and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, New York: Methuen, 1976, pp. 3-198.
3. Saunders, Peter: Social Theory and the Urban Question, London: Hutchionnson, 1981, pp.11-148, 180-218.
4. Sjoberg, Gideon: The Pre-industrial City, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960.
5. Frank, Moulaert & Allen . Scott : Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century, London: Pinter, 1997, pp.3-56.
6. Castells, Manuel: The Urban Question, Paris: Haspero, 1972.
7. Harvey, David: The Urban Experience, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
8. Gilbert, A. & Gugler, J. : Cities, Poverty: and Development: urbanization in the Third World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp.1-26, 49-64, 81-115, 134-161.
9. McGee, T.G. : The Urbanisation Process in the Third World, London: G.Bell & Sons, 1971, pp.13-96.
10. Guler, Josef (ed.): The Urbanisation of the Third World, Oxford: OUP, 1998, pp.8-32. 74-92, 125-156, 338-366.
11. Gugler, Josef (ed.): The Urban Transformation of the Developing World, Oxford: OUP, 1996, pp.1-17, 93-132.
12. Safa, Helen (ed.): Towards a political economy of urbanisation in the Third World Countries, Delhi: OUP, 1982, pp.3-18, 119-150, 175-187.
13. Soja, Edward W. : Postmodern Geographies, The reassertion of space in Critical theroy, London: Verso, 1989, pp.10-93, 138-156.