Syllabus
Lectures face to face.
1. How to learn the city; Definition of the city and urban settlement
2. Chicago School and Theory of Social Ecology.
3. Manchester School and Research in African Urban Environment - British Colonial City, Concepts of Detribalization, Disqualification, Modernity, Social Network Research, Situational Analysis.
4. Globalization and global culture and the use of social networking theory to describe global culture.
5. Erving Goffman and his concept of total institution.
6. Mary Douglas, How the Institution Thinks.
7. German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.
8. Urban research in Central and Eastern Europe: cultural and historical probes into the urban environment, urban sociology of the interwar period, urban and working class research, Sallner ethnology of the city.
9. Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City.
10. Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..
11. As explored postmodern city - morphology and consciousness, redefinition center of peripheral relations, research of edge cities, suburban fringe zones, exurban areas and recombinat cities.
12. The global city.
Annotation
The course aims to acquaint students with: how the city is defined and what is called urbanization. How does the image of the urban man and the city change?