Cities, Society, and Social Perception A Central African Perspective

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ISBN: 9780198232537 | 0198232535
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/17/1987

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The social and theoretical difficulties raised by the process of urbanization and westernization have constituted a key problem in the urban sociology of developing countries, in the sociology of development and in urban anthropology. This study of social relationships in the towns of SouthCentral Africa is based on material the author assembled over 21 years of working in Africa.

List of Tables	p. xxi
List of Figures	p. xxiii
List of Maps	p. xxiii
The Situational Perspective	p. 1
Cities and Society	p. 3
The Situational Perspective	p. 7
Cognitive Specifications of the Context: Situations	p. 9
Structural Specifications of the Context: Settings	p. 14
The Urban Context	p. 18
Warranted Naivety	p. 25
Comparison, Case Studies, and Generalization	p. 31
Cities in a Divided Society	p. 34
The Extent of Urbanization in South Central Africa	p. 40
The Administrative Context	p. 51
The Economic Factors in Urban Selection	p. 59
Labour Circulation and Urban Growth	p. 64
Labour Circulation	p. 65
Geographical Mobility	p. 71
Age and Sex Selection	p. 75
Geographical Selection	p. 85
Contextual Parameters, Social Structure, and Social Perception	p. 93
The Perceptions of City Life	p. 98
The Attitude Study	p. 106
Response to Selected Items	p. 110
Rural-Urban Self-rating	p. 115
The Underlying Dimensions in the Items	p. 116
The Relationship of Background Factors to Basic Attitudes	p. 124
Diffuse and Specific Cognitive Orientations	p. 133
Social Status and its Perception	p. 135
Occupational Ranking and Colonial Society	p. 141
Intercalary Roles and Occupational Prestige	p. 145
Hierarchical Position and the Perception of Status	p. 158
Discrepancies in Respect of Occupations	p. 164
General Social Position and the Perception of Status	p. 168
Social Structure, Social Status, and Social Perception	p. 178
The Perception of Regionalism and Ethnicity	p. 180
Cognitive Ethnicity: A Northern Rhodesian Example	p. 183
The Social and Historical Setting of the Analysis	p. 188
The Ordering of the Items	p. 195
Social Distance Scores and Perceptions of Inter-ethnic Distances	p. 201
Multi-dimensional Distance Analysis	p. 203
Social and Personal Factors Affecting the Perception of Ethnicity	p. 215
Directly Perceived Aspects of Ethnic Distance	p. 216
Cues and Characteristics	p. 221
Perception and Behaviour: Co-residence in Single Quarters	p. 225
Perception and Behaviour: Ethnic Intermarriage	p. 231
Structural and Cognitive Ethnicity	p. 235
Comparative Urbanism: Early American and Recent African Cities	p. 243
Industrialization and City Growth	p. 244
Rates of City Growth	p. 246
The Demographic Context	p. 248
Economic Conditions	p. 251
Poverty and Overcrowding	p. 252
Social Differentiation	p. 257
Ethnic Association	p. 259
Processes of Categorization and Incapsulation	p. 263
Comparison and Analysis: Formulations of City Life	p. 278
Psychologistic Assumptions	p. 283
Ethnologistic Assumptions	p. 287
Situational Analysis	p. 289
Disorganization: Primary Contacts and Networks	p. 296
Social Networks and Social Situations	p. 301
Social Networks and Social Settings	p. 310
Settings, Situations, and Analysis	p. 311
Appendix	p. 314
Bibliography	p. 317
Index	p. 333
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