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BA Sociology, Semester - 3
Module / Unit - Rural and Urban Sociology
Lesson - 2 - Meaning, Importance, Nature and Scope of Urban Sociology

Urban sociology is that branch of sociology which deals with the description and analysis of urban life. From the emergence of Sumer in the Fertile Crescent to today’s mega cities, civilization and city living have always went hand-in-hand. Indeed, today the majority of the world’s population dwells in urban places, and there is every indication that rapid urbanization will continue for the foreseeable future. Increasingly, then the study of society is the study of urban society, and therein lies the relevance of urban sociology.Urban sociology is the study of the special form of community organization called cities. The principal questions of urban sociology are how and why cities came into being, why they take on certain forms of social organization, how they are spatially structures, how people living in cities interact with one another, how cities affect their host regions and nations, and how problems arise from urbanism or urbanization.