New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2138989 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 143-159 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00143.x |
| OpenAlex | W2026803689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 60 |
The article examines some of the major challenges facing urban sociology at century's end given its traditions and lineages. These challenges arise out of the intersection of major macrosocial trends and their particular spatial patterns. The city and the metropolitan region emerge as one of the strategic sites where these macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of study. Among these trends are globalization and the rise of the new information technologies, the intensifying of transnational and translocal dynamics, and the strengthening presence and voice of specific types of socio-cultural diversity. Each one of these trends has its own specific conditionalities, contents and consequences for cities, and for theory and research. Cities are also sites where each of these trends interacts with the others in distinct, often complex manners, in a way they do not in just about any other setting. The city emerges once again as a strategic lens for the study of major macrosocial transformations as it was in the origins of sociology. Can urban sociology address these challenges and in so doing once again produce some of the analytic tools for understanding the broader transformation
Diversity (politics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Globalization · Intersection (aeronautics · Metropolitan area · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Urban sociology · Anthropology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
Transnational Orientation, Cosmopolitanism and Integration among Albanian-Origin Teenagers in Tuscany
A Global Site of Heritage? Constructing Spaces of Memory at the World Trade Center Site
Introduction
The global middle class and school choice
Violencias en la periferia de Santiago
Exploring Identifications in the Transnational Social Sphere
Afterword
‘We wanna show ’em who we are’
Trying to Measure Globalization
World Ordering
Lokale fællesskaber i den senmoderne by
Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion
Measuring… What? Notes on Some Globalization Indices
Reflexive Governance Dynamics Operative Within Round One of World Religious Leaders’ Dialogue With the G8 (2005-2013)
Nation States, Cities, and People
Reflexivity in External Religious Leaders’ Summit Communication Sequences (2005-2012) to G8 Political Leaders
From Neighbourhood to Network
Inside Out
From Prisons to Penthouses
Re-conceptualizing sustainable urban sanitation in Uganda
Connecting urban and environmental catastrophe
Postnormative cosmopolitanism
Fashionable Quarters in the Postindustrial City
Places of Privileged Consumption Practices
Mediterranean Style Gated Communities around the World
New Directions in Globalization Indices
New Maps, New Questions
Carnivals of Surplus Emotion?1’ Towards an Understanding of the Significance of Ecstatic Nationalism in a Globalising World
What nationality he is doesn't matter a damn!’ International football, mediated identities and conditional cosmopolitanism
Re‐thinking the urban social
Rethinking Local Politics
Policing the port, watching the city. Manifestations of organised crime in the port of Genoa
Imaginarios, incertidumbre y protesta social en México
Scenographic” and “Cosmetic” Planning
Re-Assembling the Urban
The discursive construction of urban climate policy
Television tension
Unequal City and Inequitable Choice
An autoethnographic examination of the development of biculturalism and the emergence of concinnation
The myth of independence for older Americans living alone in the Bay Area of San Francisco
Looking Forward by Looking Back
Towards a dialogue between planetary gentrification and postcolonial urbanisation
Transnational gentrification
Urban Is Floating Face Down in the Mainstream
Reimagining the Urban
Opportunities for Democracy in Cross-border Regions? Lessons from the Øresund Region
Moving from Urban Sociology to the Sociology of the City
Cities in Globalization
The limits to 'transnationalism
Periferie
Een Eeuwige Jeugd
The Spread of Security Communities
Migration and other Modes of Transnationalism
The 'elected' and the 'excluded
Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory
American cities, global networks
Revitalizing sociology
Working for Free in the VIP
Answering the Call
The hostile environment, Brexit, and 'reactive-' or 'protective transnationalism
The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies
The Sense of Belonging in New Urban Zones of Transition
The Philadelphia Negroand the Canon of Classical Urban Theory
Determinants of the Attribution of Poverty in Turkey
Urbanization in the world-economy
Global production
Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-Economy
Ethnic Segregation in Cities
The Social Production of Urban Space
Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Down on Their Luck
Streetwise
Telecommunications and the City
The Informal Economy
Cultural Complexity
Ethnography unbound
The Truly Disadvantaged
Economies of Signs and Space
Department and Discipline
Landscapes of Power
World Cities in a World-System
Globalization and the City
The Local and the Global
Marxism and the City
American dreaming
The Vertical Mosaic
In Search of Respect
Gendered Transitions
Capital Culture
Urban fortunes
The Vertical Mosaic
The Economic Sociology of Immigration
Urban Specialization in the World-System
Vertical Mosaic among the Elites
Global cities, glocal states
Change in the World System of Metropolises
Hong Kong
Preparing for the urban future
From Urban Village to East Village
Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 4
Re-presenting the City
Protecting One's Turf
Ethnic Segregation in Cities
The informal economy
The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old
Flesh and stone
Family and Personal Networks in International Migration
The Late-Modern City as a Bazaar
The City as Text
Informal Social Control and Crime Management in Belfast
Tokyo
Globalization and Local Resistance
When Work Disappears
Integration and Political Representation in a Multicultural City
Inside the Zone
Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Crime
| Unique citing works | 64 |
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| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |