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'''Mark Gottdiener''' (born 1943) was a professor of sociology at [[University at Buffalo]], specializing in [[urban sociology]]. He is now Professor Emeritus.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/sociology/faculty/emeritus-faculty.html | title=Emeritus Faculty }}</ref> |
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'''<big>Mark Gottdiener</big>''' (born 1943) is an Urban Sociologist/ Cultural Studies academic considered one of the best urbanists in the United States.<sup>[1]</sup> Publishing 16 books, several in multiple editions, and over one hundred scientific papers produced, so far, over hundreds of citations to his work, including a significant amount from other fields, such as Economics and Semiotics, . In 2010 Gottdiener was honored with the Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. His principle faculty posts were at the University of California, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York. In addition, he held visiting professorships at universities in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and in the US. |
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Gottdiener was the first person in the Anglophone world to write an extended analysis of [[Henri Lefebvre]], including comparing his work to traditional urban geography and sociology as well as the [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Manuel Castells]]. Through his major works, ''The Social Production of Urban Space''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Social Production of Urban Space|last=Mark|first=Gottdiener|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=1985|isbn=9780292786493}}</ref> and ''The New Urban Sociology''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The new urban sociology|last=Gottdiener, Mark|others=Hohle, Randolph,, King, Colby R.|isbn=978-0-429-24445-2|edition=Sixth|location=New York|oclc=1110680320|year = 2019}}</ref>'','' which is in its 6th edition, he developed the sociospatial approach to urbanization. The sociospatial perspective focuses our attention on how everyday life in the Multi-Centered Metropolitan Region (MCMR) is affected by the political economy of urban life—the interplay of cultural, political, economic, and social forces both within and outside of urban communities. |
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'''<big>Personal Life and Early Career</big>''' |
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The concept of [[theming]] has been attributed to Gottdiener's work, first published in 2000 (in particular his book ''New forms of consumption: Consumers, culture and commodification''), and further developed in 2001 (''The Theming of America: dreams, media fantasies, and themed environments'').<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crawford|first1=G.|title=Is it in the Game? Reconsidering Play Spaces, Game Definitions, Theming, and Sports Videogames|journal=[[Games and Culture]]|date=19 January 2015|volume=10|issue=6|pages=571–592|doi=10.1177/1555412014566235|s2cid=143970698|url=http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/33499/3/Themed_Sports_Games_revised_3.pdf}}</ref> |
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Gottdiener was born in the South Bronx, NYC, and lived in a tenement with his parents, Moritz (Moshe Ovadiah HaCohen) and Aranka (Rachel HaLevy) Vogel, who were Orthodox Jewish refugees from Hungary that arrived in the U.S. in the late 1930s. Both parents were of mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazic heritage who spoke Hungarian and German in the home. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and the City College of New York majoring in Mathematics. Gottdiener attended graduate school in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota in an accelerated PhD program for mathematically gifted students. He studied with Leonid Hurvicz, Hugo Sonnenschein and John Chipman. However, he dropped out with a Master's degree due to the a- social nature of his studies and because of involvement in the counter- culture activities during the 1960s. In 1970 he entered the Sociology program at SUNY Stony Brook where he studied with David Street, Gerald Suttles and Kurt Lang receiving his PhD in 1973. Gottdiener married his girlfriend from Minneapolis, Jennifer Paulson Garwick, a craft artist with an MFA from Pratt Institute, in 1969. They have two sons, Felix, an urban planner,, and Zev, an Anthropologist. |
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In 2010, Gottdiener was awarded the [[American Sociological Association]] Community and Urban Sociology Section's Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UB's Gottdiener Called One of the Most Important Urban Sociologists in U.S. |url=https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2010/09/11794.html |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=www.buffalo.edu |language=en}}</ref> |
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'''<big>Contributions</big>''' |
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Gottdiener influenced many contemporary urbanists on an international scale with the translations of urban books into Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Korean. |
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Mark Gottdiener is best known for two contributions to social science and cultural studies: the socio- spatial approach to urbanism, known as the New Urban Sociology, following the work of Henri Lefebvre, and the application of Peircian and Eco's semiotics to the study of material culture. "Challenging human ecology, the new urban sociology , defined a paradigm of urban analysis that has dominated the field since the 1990s (1988; 1995 [1985]). Emphasizing academic dialogue and work ranging across disciplinary boundaries, he has developed ideas of European critical and social theory to serve urban analysis. Notably , he was the first person to systematically introduce, in the Anglophone world, Henri Lefebvre's theory of the social production of space"<sup>[2]</sup> (1995; Forthcoming, 2018). The second innovative contribution is the concept of [[theming]], as it is studied in social science, which he initially developed in 1986, 1995b, and expanded further in 2001 to include Branding. Theming and Branding studies are now common as are conferences that continue to be called on these subjects <sup>[3]</sup>. |
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==References== |
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Gottdiener, Mark,([1985] 1995a), ''The Social Production of Urban Space.'' Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. |
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____________(1995b), ''Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life.'' Oxford, UK: Blackwell. |
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____________ (2001). ''The Theming of America: American Dreams, Media Visions and Themed Environments.'' Boulder, CO; Westview Press. |
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____________ and A. Lagopoulos, eds., (1986),''The City and The Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics.'' NY: Columbia University Press. |
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____________ and Joe R. Feagin, (1988), "The Paradigm Shift in Urban Sociology." ''Urban Affairs Quarterly, 24(2):'' 163- 174. |
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____________ et. al., 6th edition (Forthcoming). ''The New Urban Sociology.'' Boulder, CO: Westview Press. |
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[2} Lehtovuori,P. (2009), in R. Hutchison, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Urban Studies.'' Sherman Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Pp 319-322. |
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[3] For a 2018 example, see Mark Gottdiener, Keynote Speaker, "Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies" (April 19-22, 2018; U Bonn, Germany). |
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Latest revision as of 18:01, 4 December 2023
Mark Gottdiener (born 1943) was a professor of sociology at University at Buffalo, specializing in urban sociology. He is now Professor Emeritus.[1]
Gottdiener was the first person in the Anglophone world to write an extended analysis of Henri Lefebvre, including comparing his work to traditional urban geography and sociology as well as the Marxist Manuel Castells. Through his major works, The Social Production of Urban Space[2] and The New Urban Sociology[3], which is in its 6th edition, he developed the sociospatial approach to urbanization. The sociospatial perspective focuses our attention on how everyday life in the Multi-Centered Metropolitan Region (MCMR) is affected by the political economy of urban life—the interplay of cultural, political, economic, and social forces both within and outside of urban communities.
The concept of theming has been attributed to Gottdiener's work, first published in 2000 (in particular his book New forms of consumption: Consumers, culture and commodification), and further developed in 2001 (The Theming of America: dreams, media fantasies, and themed environments).[4]
In 2010, Gottdiener was awarded the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section's Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5]
Gottdiener influenced many contemporary urbanists on an international scale with the translations of urban books into Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Korean.
References
[edit]- ^ "Emeritus Faculty".
- ^ Mark, Gottdiener (1985). The Social Production of Urban Space. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292786493.
- ^ Gottdiener, Mark (2019). The new urban sociology. Hohle, Randolph,, King, Colby R. (Sixth ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-429-24445-2. OCLC 1110680320.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Crawford, G. (19 January 2015). "Is it in the Game? Reconsidering Play Spaces, Game Definitions, Theming, and Sports Videogames" (PDF). Games and Culture. 10 (6): 571–592. doi:10.1177/1555412014566235. S2CID 143970698.
- ^ "UB's Gottdiener Called One of the Most Important Urban Sociologists in U.S." www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- "UB's Gottdiener Called One of the Most Important Urban Sociologists in U.S. - University at Buffalo". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- Ray Hutchison (15 September 2009). Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Publications. pp. 319–322. ISBN 978-1-4522-6613-8.
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