Urban Sociology

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Course description: The role of cities in modern society is reviewed from the perspective of key theoretical and analytical approaches in urban sociology. Different concepts of city (industrial – postindustrial; modern – postmodern; Fordist-post/Fordist; capitalist-socialist-post/socialist; managerial / entrepreneurial; etc.) are discussed from various geographical contexts. Particular focus is put on urban governance from the point of view of contemporary globalization, as well as on emerging socio-spatial inequalities, urban social movements and potential conflicts. Specific urbanization pattern of modern Serbian society and its recent urban transformation are discussed from different conceptual approaches and contextual particularities.

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Literature/Reading:

• Sreten Vujović i Mina Petriović, Urbana sociologija, Zavod za uđbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 2005.
• Sreten Vujović, Grad u senci rata, ISI FF, Beograd, 1997. str. 27-44; 107-168.
• S. Vujović i M. Petrović »Glavni akteri i bitne promene u postsocijalističkom urbanom razvoju Beograda« U Tomanović, S (ur) Društvo u previranju, ISI FF, Beograd, 2006. str. 1
• Mina Petrović, Sociologija stanovanja, ISI FF, Beograd, 2004. str. 22-40;53-56; 60-65;93-97;143-148;197-199.
• M. Petrović „Globalizacija i gradovi” Sociologija, Vol. XLVI, No.2,2004,
• M. Petrović “Gradovi u tranziciji: iskustva razvijenih zemalja u poslednjim decenijama 20. veka" Sociologija.Vol. XLII, No. 3, 2000, str.
• Sreten Vujović, Ljudi i gradovi, Beograd: FF, Budva: Mediteran, str. 22-34.
• Pušić, Lj. (2001) Održivi grad - ka jednoj sociologiji okruženja. Beograd: Slobodan Mašić-biblioteka Nova 175, str. 47-90; 229-260
• Čaldarović, O. Urbana sociologija: Socijalna teorija i urbano pitanje. Zagreb: Globus, 1985. str.
• Ćirković, S. »Neostvarena autonomija: gradska društva u Srbiji i Bosni«, Rabotnici, vojnici, duhovnici, Equilibrium, 2001, str. 259-276.
• Dokumeta UN Habitata
• Lokalna Agenda 21,
• Mina Petrović, Transformacija gradova – depolitizacija urbanog pitanja, Beograd: ISI FF, 2009.
• Petrović, M. (2008) "Istraživanje socijalnih aspekata urbanog susedstva", Sociologija, br. 1.
• Stanilov, K. (ed) 2007 The Post-Socialist City, Springer.