The World of Cities
The World of Cities
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10.1177/009430610403300244
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2004-03
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通讯作者：
M. Lagory
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作者：
M. Lagory
在《城市的世界》一书中，Orum和Chen提供了一个关于城市作为地方的简洁陈述，旨在使城市社会学学生既全面又容易理解。他们开始指出，城市之所以是重要的力量，正是因为它们是地方，“也就是说，空间中的特定位置为我们是谁提供了一个锚和意义。”事实上，正是城市的这种品质，它们的地方性以及我们自己与地方的联系感，是城市社会科学中最基本但最少被承认的概念之一。这一点很好理解。社会科学中的一些事情是如此明显的重要，以至于它们常常被忽略。然而，正因为如此，它们的意义往往在学术话语中消失。地点是这些因素之一，是社会结构和经验的一个基本维度，在复杂的社会学讨论中经常被忽视。即使是城市社会学，它基本上集中在一个与地点有关的理论对象，往往忽视了这一关键因素。然而，在过去的十年里，与城市有关的地方话语已经恢复到自早期以来从未听到过的程度。
In The World of Cities, Orum and Chen offer a succinct statement on cities as places that is intended to be both comprehensive and accessible to urban sociology students. They begin by noting that cities are significant forces precisely because they are places,“that is, specific locations in space that provide an anchor and a meaning to who we are.” Indeed, it is this quality of cities, their placeness and our own sense of connection to places, that is one of the most fundamental, but least acknowledged, concepts in urban social science. The point is well taken. Some things in the social sciences are so obviously important that they are often left unsaid. Precisely because of this, however, their significance tends to be lost in academic discourse. Place is one of those factors, an elemental dimension of social structure and experience frequently overlooked in sophisticated sociological discussions. Even urban sociology, which focuses fundamentally on a placerelated theoretical object, often ignores this critical factor. Over the last decade, however, place-related discourse on the city has been revived to a point not heard since the early