Cities and towns; Social psychology; Sociology; Sociology, Urban
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IX. HUMAN NATURE AND CITY LIFE
The city is remaking human nature and each city is producing its own
type of personality. These influences of city life are of prime interest
to the sociologist. The materials bearing on this question are not
primarily those collected by the scientist, but by the artist. It
requires insight and imagination to perceive and to describe these
deep-seated changes which are being wrought in the nature of man
himself.
1. The division of labor and the fine specialization of occupations and
professions that is so distinctly characteristic of city life has
brought into existence a new mode of thought and new habits and
attitudes which have transformed man in a few generations. The city man
tends to think less in terms of locality than he does in terms of
occupation. In a sense he has become an adjunct of the machine which he
operates and the tools he uses. His interests are organized around his
occupation, and his status and mode of life is determined by it.
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lawyer’s office. (IX, 4.)
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“Grossstadt Dokumente.” (IX, 3, 4.)
The profession of money-lending in the large city and the behavior
patterns that this professional group exhibits. (IX, 3, 4.)
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1922). (II, 3; V, 1, 2, 3; IX.)
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Chicago. (IX, 2, 3.)
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(London, 1919).
The emergence of occupational types in the course of industrial
evolution. (III, 4; IV, 6.)
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Civilization_ (London, 1917). (II, 3; III, 4; IV, 6; IX, 2, 3; X,
2.)
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(Berlin, 1905).
Describes the life of an occupational group—the pugilists—in the
large city (Berlin). (V, 1, 3; VI, 6; IX, 4.)
Mayhew, Henry. _London Labour and London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the
Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot
Work, and Those That Will Not Work_ (London, 1861–62), 4 vols.
A description of occupational types created by city specialization.
(II, 3; VII, 5; IX, 4.)
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