Urban environment as a determinant of behavioral practices: formats of sociological conceptualization
The sociological study of the city as a social and cultural phenomenon is fundamentally important for the description and understanding of nowadays world. The human transformation of the environment has long been regarded as not unilateral: the impact of the urban environment on the behavioral pract...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | RUDN journal of Sociology |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/6262 |
| Summary: | The sociological study of the city as a social and cultural phenomenon is fundamentally important for the description and understanding of nowadays world. The human transformation of the environment has long been regarded as not unilateral: the impact of the urban environment on the behavioral practices is ubiquitous due to various factors and obvious in many spheres of human activity. A number of complex scientific theories and not just some separate works are trying to prove that in the modern world the city is not only a type of settlement - it is a complex socio-cultural formation with many specific features that make the life of urban dwellers quite special and therefore it becomes the focus of sociological interest. |
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| ISSN: | 2313-2272 2408-8897 |