Conference paper
Urban Sociology and Developed Capitalism
Enzo Mingione
; Sveučilište u Messini, Italija
Abstract
The author examines the development of socio-territorial research in Italy after World War II. The growth of interest in socio-territorial research developed during the 1960’s when it became clear that there was a link between the process of urbanization and the socio-economic development of the country as a whole. By the end of the decade the classical methodology of socio-economic came into question. A newer tendency appeared in the framework of the Marxist tradition along the lines of the works of H. Lefebvre, H. Ch. de Lauwee and others. Of particular importance was M. Castells’; La question urbaine (The Urban Question], the works of Godard, Lojkine, Petriceille and the works of F. Ferrarotti about Italian society. This new method rejects the autonomy of urban sociology. The city, the traditional subject of study, is now regarded an inseparable part of social organization which must be understood in all of its economic, political, social and ideological expressions. Thus, after 1968 it is difficult to speak of classical urban sociology. Urban questions appear as problems of socio-economic analysis. A particularly successful example of this type of analysis is the studies of socio-economic processes in southern Italy. Urban questions are discussed as socio-political problems particularly after 1968/69 and 1977: The topic of study is aimed at the increasing social conflict of all kinds and the consequent intervention of the state and public institutions. New studies, then, are directed at the problems of the institutional crisis in Italian cities, »urban strife«, administrative reforms, the structure of public expenditure and many other aspects of modern Italian life which characterize the crisis of developed capitalism.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
156041
URI
Publication date:
31.12.1979.
Visits: 1.385 *