Index of urban sociology articles

Urban sociology is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures,processes,changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so providing inputs for planning and policy making.

A

abandonment — Administration for Children and Families — Acid Rain Program(EPA) — achievement gap in the United States — affirmative action — African American — Aid to Families with Dependent Children(AFDC) — air quality(indoor) — Air Quality Index — alienation — annexation — anomie — arson — Asian American — Automobile — Autonomy

B

bureaucracy — birth rate — block grant — budget — bus — business cycle

C

capitalism — carpool — carsharing — central business district — charter school — civil rights — class stratification — clean air act — Community Reinvestment Act — commuting — concentric zone model — corporation — cost of living(U.S.) — crime — criminal justice — cultural bias — culture of poverty

D

de facto segregation — de jure segregation — death rate — decentralization — devolution — disability — disinvestment — division of labour

E

economic development — economic growth — elitism — employment — empowerment zone — enterprise zone — entertainment center — entrepôt — ethnic enclave

F

Federal Housing Administration — FHA loan — fragmentation

G

gang — gentrification — globalization — government — great depression — gridlick — growth management

H

habitability — highway — Hispanic Americans — historic preservation — Home Mortgage Disclosure Act — homelessness — homeowners' association — Housing Act of 1937 — Housing Act of 1949 — Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 — HOPE VI — Housing Opportunities Made Equal — human ecology — Department of Housing and Urban Development(H.U.D.) — hyperghettoization

I

immigration — inclusionary zoning — income — industrial ecology — industrialization — inequality — infrastructure — interest group

K

kinship

L

land use — landfill — leapfrogging

M

magnet school — methanol — middle class — migration — modernization — Moving to Opportunity — multiple nuclei model

N

National Ambient Air Quality Standards — neighborhood — Neo-Marxism — nuclear family

O

organized crime — overcrowding

P

parochialism — Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act — polarization — police brutality — pollution — poverty — poverty line — privatization — public transport — psychological stress — public housing — public school

R

racial discrimination — racial integration — racism — rail system — recycling — regime theory — revenue sharing — rural

S

savings and loan crisis — scholarship — segregation — single parent — smart growth — social complexity — social disorganization theory — social housing — social solidarity — social work — social welfare provision — Socialism — solidarity — Soviet Union — steam engine — streetcar — street children — suburbanization — suburb — sun belt

T

taxes — technology — TANF — third world

U

underemployment — underground economy — unemployment — Uniform Crime Report — unionization — urban decay — Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 — urban renewal — urban sprawl — urbanization

V

Vice Lords — violence — volunteer — voting bloc

W

Wage — war on poverty — waste disposal — water supply — welfare — welfare reform — white flight — white collar crime — workfare

X

xenophobia

Z

zoning

See Also

List of U.S. metropolitan areas with large African-American populations

Further reading

Flanagan, William G. (2001). Urban Sociology : Images and Structure, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0205335322

Keiser, R. Lincoln. (1969). The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Streets, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN 0030803616

Shannon, Thomas R. (2001). Urban Problems in Sociological Perspective, Waveland Press Inc, ISBN 1577661958

Spradley, James P. (1999). You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomad, Waveland Press Inc, ISBN 1577660854

Vargas, Joao H. Costa. (2006). Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life And Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles, University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0816641692

Williams, Terry. (1992). Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line, Penguin Group(USA), ISBN 0140232516