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Course Description
This course unit introduces
students to the main approaches to investigating the urban experience in the
social space of the modern city.
Also, the course unit will ground
students in an understanding of cities as critical nodes within a world that
is increasingly interconnected socially, culturally, politically and
economically.
It will investigate the causes and
effects of this interconnectedness as well as the methods utilized to measure
it. It will explore how the global context shapes urban issues, examining the
global urban networks across which capital, labor and ideas flow.
Intended Learning Outcomes
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1.
Identify
the sociological and anthropological approaches to studying cities and urban
lives
2.
Ability
to analyse/evaluate and assess the key theoretical debates in the fields of
urban anthropology and anthropology of the city / to have an awareness of the
debates and be aware of how specific theoretical trends developed over time.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of anthropological and sociological
theories regarding the cities
3.
evaluate
urban space and the make- up of urban environments
4.
Relate
the theory to specific ethnographic contexts in the analysis of the spatial
cultural political and social characteristics of the modern cities
- examine
global changes and current trends in cities.
- 6 identify
and assess the effects of technology and the changing labor, housing and
land markets in 21st-century cities.
- illustrate
how urban sociology might be used to anticipate and plan for changes and
development in different urban settings.
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