The Social Structure of the City: A Critical Review of Contributing Sociologists
- 1 Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- 2 Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Abstract
The idea of a city has changed over the course of human evolution and in modern times finding a definition as to what is exactly meant by a city has become a really difficult task. A city is signified not only by the structural differences it resembles something which is not accepted as a city for not having a physical built environment surrounded by concrete buildings and stagnation of office spaces, instead a city signifies a social reality and the interactions thereof, by which people come to differentiate a city from something which is not. This paper looks at the different definitions and ideologies brought forward by an urban sociologist in analysing the city while looking at the ecological, cultural and new urban sociological ideologies in defying and identifying the concept of a city.
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