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Cities, Society, and Social Perception A Central African Perspective

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ISBN-10: 0198232535

ISBN-13: 9780198232537

Edition: 1987

Authors: J. Clyde Mitchell

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The social and theoretical difficulties raised by the process of urbanization and westernization have constituted a key problem in the urban sociology of developing countries, in the sociology of development and in urban anthropology. This study of social relationships in the towns of South Central Africa is based on material the author assembled over 21 years of working in Africa.
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 358
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.430

List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
The Situational Perspective
Cities and Society
The Situational Perspective
Cognitive Specifications of the Context: Situations
Structural Specifications of the Context: Settings
The Urban Context
Warranted Naivety
Comparison, Case Studies, and Generalization
Cities in a Divided Society
The Extent of Urbanization in South Central Africa
The Administrative Context
The Economic Factors in Urban Selection
Labour Circulation and Urban Growth
Labour Circulation
Geographical Mobility
Age and Sex Selection
Geographical Selection
Contextual Parameters, Social Structure, and Social Perception
The Perceptions of City Life
The Attitude Study
Response to Selected Items
Rural-Urban Self-rating
The Underlying Dimensions in the Items
The Relationship of Background Factors to Basic Attitudes
Diffuse and Specific Cognitive Orientations
Social Status and its Perception
Occupational Ranking and Colonial Society
Intercalary Roles and Occupational Prestige
Hierarchical Position and the Perception of Status
Discrepancies in Respect of Occupations
General Social Position and the Perception of Status
Social Structure, Social Status, and Social Perception
The Perception of Regionalism and Ethnicity
Cognitive Ethnicity: A Northern Rhodesian Example
The Social and Historical Setting of the Analysis
The Ordering of the Items
Social Distance Scores and Perceptions of Inter-ethnic Distances
Multi-dimensional Distance Analysis
Social and Personal Factors Affecting the Perception of Ethnicity
Directly Perceived Aspects of Ethnic Distance
Cues and Characteristics
Perception and Behaviour: Co-residence in Single Quarters
Perception and Behaviour: Ethnic Intermarriage
Structural and Cognitive Ethnicity
Comparative Urbanism: Early American and Recent African Cities
Industrialization and City Growth
Rates of City Growth
The Demographic Context
Economic Conditions
Poverty and Overcrowding
Social Differentiation
Ethnic Association
Processes of Categorization and Incapsulation
Comparison and Analysis: Formulations of City Life
Psychologistic Assumptions
Ethnologistic Assumptions
Situational Analysis
Disorganization: Primary Contacts and Networks
Social Networks and Social Situations
Social Networks and Social Settings
Settings, Situations, and Analysis
Appendix
Bibliography
Index