| Titre | Propositions de recherches sur la vie urbaine | |
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| Auteur | Institut de Sociologie urbaine | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1968, 9-2 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Travaux de l'Institut de Sociologie urbaine |
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| Page | 151-166 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Propositions for a programme of research on urban life.
In the research conducted, at the present time about cities, one can distinguish those studies which deal with ways of life and those which deal with urbanization. The analyses of ways of life examine the daily life and its relationship to the physical setting and cultural behavior ; they frequently identify their main object, which is urban sociology, to sociology in general (sociology of the family, sociology of a determined social group, etc.). The study of urbanization, defined as a historical and economic process with considerable ecological consequences, is quite developed, but is separated with difficulty from the study of a way of life. ? This separation between two types of research seems to correspond to a real lag between the evolution of social mores and the evolution of urbanization. The lag is not of the same nature in industrialized capitalistic countries, as it is in some European socialist countries and in non-industrialized countries. In France, one can assume that urbanization is behind social mores, particularly, in those moments of daily life which are controlled by the type of consumer patterns, leisure time activities and urban evasion. For the Institut of Urban Sociology (Paris), the most urgent research should be that which deals with adapting the city to urban ways of life and with the analysis of the urbanization process. In this analysis, special attention must be given to the dominant groups which create the models of consumption and make important decisions. These same decisions are largely ordered by the image of urban life which determines the forms of voluntary urbanism. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1968_num_9_2_1377 |
