CHAPTER 16:
URBAN PROBLEMS
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Trace the development of urban areas since the early nineteenth century.
- Summarize the patterns of contemporary urban growth.
- Summarize urban problems in the United States.
- Develop suggested solutions for urban problems both nationally and globally.
- Recognize the unique problems the homeless and other victims of urban problems face.
- Discuss how racial and ethnic segregation have been perpetuated by policies related to urbanization and suburbanization.
- Discuss problems facing global cities.
- Address the social problems in urban areas from the three sociological perspectives.
- Examine the three factors that have contributed to social disorganization and the disruption of social institutions from the functionalist perspective.
- Discuss how the symbolic interactionist perspective is similar and different from the functionalist and conflict perspectives used to explain urban problems.
- Suggest changes in local and global affairs that will help alleviate urban problems.
