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Urban Social Problems

Agus Dharma Fakultas Teknik Sipil dan Perencanaan Universitas Gunadarma email : agus_dh@staff.gunadarma.ac.id website : staffsite.gunadarma.ac.id/agus_dh/

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Urban Problems

The urban movement From rural to cities

Today ½ of the world lives in cities

City- a large # of people who live in one

place and do not produce their own food

Cities designed to solve problems Community- feeling of belonging

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Almost all social problems are “urban” City life increases social problems Middle class moving to suburbs Urban sprawl Urban crisis

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Symbolic Interactionism

How life looks to the people who live it The Chicago school of sociology :

People of different backgrounds live in separate areas and develop unique subcultures

William Foote Whyte :

city = tightly knit way of life Each group has own statuses, norms, and ways of controlling its members

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Gerald Suttles :

Each group had its own form of communication

Elijah Anderson :

• Boundaries between “us” and “them”
• Neighborhoods being “gentrified”
• In urban settings- people stake out territory,

establish social boundaries between themselves and others, and develop a sense

• f ID and belonging

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Functionalism

Ernest Burgess : how cities grow

Five zones - City expands outward from its

center :

• Zone I- central business district
• Zone II- encircles downtown area (incl. slums)
• Zone III- working men and women escape slums
• Zone IV- better apts., single family residences,

the wealthy live there

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Zone V- commuter zone of suburbs

beyond city limits

City dwellers are always on the move Move into better zones when they can afford to Invasion-succession cycle The most mobile areas have the most severe

social problems

Mobility and problems concentrated in zone II

(zone in transition)

A city’s problems are transitory

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Conflict theory

Class conflict- capitalism Business leaders dictate gov’t policy and tap

the public treasury

Increase profits of developers Finance transportation system to move goods

the wealthy manufacture

Corporate leaders abandoned areas they no

longer needed to the poor

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Intimacy of city life

Gemeinschaft Gesselschaft Diffusion of responsibility City provides community

Network of friends/acquaintances City divided into little worlds

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Five types of urban dwellers The cosmopolites The singles The ethnic villagers The deprived The trapped Skid row- trapped/deprived live here (area

• f bars, cheap restaurants, pawnshops,

and rescue missions)

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Decline of central city

Suburban sprawl Capitalists- redlining Bankers and disinvestment Abandonment Arson

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Urban violence

Gangs Supergangs Girl gangs School violence Riots Communal riots Commodity riots

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Emerging megalopolis

Supermetropolitan unit Interconnected areas Regional planning Edge cities restratification

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Educating the poor

Teachers, teaching methods Small class size Work study programs Scholarships Social promotion Functional illiteracy