Urban sociology studies human groups in a territorial frame of reference. In this field, social organization is the major focus of inquiry, with an emphasis on the interplay between social and spatial organization and the ways in which changes in...

Urban sociology is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in metropolitan...

Harry H. Hiller, ed. Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 350 pp. $65.50 paper. Almost 80 percent of Canadians live in urban areas today, in contrast to about half the population in 1931. Urbanization is...

CLAMMER, JOHN. Contemporary urban Japan: a sociology of consumption. xii, 181 pp., bibliogr. Oxford, Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1997, [pounds]15.99 (paper) At the Start of this book, Clammer notes that though consumption has emerged as a major issue in anthropology in the last...