New models of urban sociology

• Author: Erjona Fusha
• Position: University of Tirana
• Pages: 87-91

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Vol. 2 No. 2

June, 2018

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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New models of urban sociology

Erjona Fusha

University of Tirana

Abstract

Urbanization is not just a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historical transformation of

the human social roots on a global scale, where largely rural culture is rapidly replaced by the

urban prevalent culture. Rural culture is characterized by common blood ties and intimate

relationships, while the urban culture is characterized by distant blood connections, unfamiliar

relationship sand competitive behavior. This article will consider urbanization (according to

Castells) as a creator of the major social, economic and environmental changes that provide

sustainability opportunities by using e cient resources. The appearance and architectural

features of the cities and suburbs express wars and confl icts between di erent groups of

society. In other words, the urban environment represents symbolic and spatial manifestations

of wider social forces. While according to Harvey in modern urbanization space is usually

restructured. This process is determined by the place where the large companies decide to set

up factories, industrial production centers, investor activities as well as buying / selling houses

and land.

Keywords: urbanization, urban culture, city, urban environment and space.

Introduction

In sociological studies, the urbanization is generally defi ned as increasing of the

concentration of the people in limited geographical areas, called cities. Urbanization

did not only change the distribution of the population within a certain society but

also many models of the social life (Dervishi, Z., Dautaj, A., 2004: 31).

During the urbanization process the population in cities is increased compared to

rural areas. Urbanization began during the period of industrial revolution, when the

workers moved from industrial areas to cities to break away from agriculture jobs as

well.

During most of their history, the people moved constantly and had no permanent

se lements. But they began to create the fi rst permanent se lements as the fi rst urban

revolution (Dervishi, Z. Dautaj, A., 2004: 31).

Since the mid of 18th century, the use of steam power and the increasingly advanced

technical and technological equipment in the industry, transport, etc., brought radical

changes in the lives of cities, which were characterized as the second urban revolution

(Dervishi, Z. Dautaj, A., 2004:35).

Urbanization is very important for a variety of disciplines, including geography,

sociology, economics, urban planning and public health. This phenomenon has been

closely linked to modernization and industrialization.

In Europe, urbanization began about 1800 years before the New Era on the

Mediterranean island of Crete. Urbanization spread to scale in Greece where more