What Will You Learn?

• This course familiarizes students with the origin of urban sociology in Western Europe (Max Weber, Durkheim, Marx and Engels and Georg Simmel), and later North America namely the Chicago school. It went parallel with grappling with the challenges of the new society borne out of the conditions of industrial capitalism (post the 1800s) and its pathologies. Thus, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of the conditions under which our present-day understanding of urban sociology emerged.