تمایل و گرایشات جامعه شناسی شهری به همسایگی

NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNTIY

Urban sociology has tended to be neighborhood sociology

دلایل استفاده از مفهوم همسایگی به جای اجتماع:

• There are a number of reasons why the concept of
• “neighbor hood”
• has come to be substituted for that of “community”

دلایل:

• کناره های خیابان مکان های قابل رویت برای تعامل
• بسیاری از محققان شهر را به عنوان سرجمعی از همسایگی ها تقسیم کرده اند.
• تعاریف رسمی از محدوده های همسایگی بر طبق نقشه شهر
• مهمترین عامل سازماندهی ارتباطات اجتماعی شهری
• اختصاص یافتن بسیاری از تحلیل های شبکه به موقعیت هایی که تحت عقاید و احساسات و افکار منسجم شده اند.

First, urban researchers have to start somewhere. The neigh­borhood is an easily identifiable research site, while the street corner is an obvious and visible place for mapping small-scale interaction.
Second, many scholars have interpreted the neighborhood as
the microcosm of the city and the city as an aggregate of neigh­borhoods. They have emphasized the local rather than the cosmopolitan in a building block approach to analysis which has given scant attention to large-scale urban structure.
Third, administrative officials have imposed their own defi­nitions of neighborhood boundaries upon urban map in at­tempts to create bureaucratic units. Spatial areas, labeled and treated as coherent neighborhoods, have come to be regarded as natural phenomena.
Fourth, urban sociology’s particular concern with spatial distributions has tended to be translated into local area concerns. Territory has come to be seen as the inherently most important organizing factor in urban social relations rather than just one potentially important factor.
Fifth, and most importantly, many analysts have been preoccupied with the conditions under which soldiery sentiments can be maintained. Their preoccupation reflects a persistent overarching sociological concern with normative integration and consensus. The neighborhood has been studied as an apparently obvious container of normative solidarity.