Family and Community Studies in Relation to Recent Developments in Urban Research

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  • 都市研究の転換と家族・コミュニティ論の課題
  • トシ ケンキュウ ノ テンカン ト カゾク ・ コミュニティロン ノ カダイ

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This paper presents a new perspective on family and community studies in Urban Sociology. Social processes and social networks in the urban setting have been studied following the tradition of the Chicago School. However, the Marxian approach to urban studies gained prominence after criticism from the New Urban Sociologists. The urban studies conducted by the New Urban Sociologists were inspired by the political economy, and were fully developed using the idea of globalization and the new international division of labor. However, it seems difficult to explore the social structure made up of families and other social groups in the community, because the social networks spread out beyond the local community in the capitalist world economy. How do we study the family and community in the global city-regions? The capitalist world economy constructs the spatial structure through the property market and state policy. Particular places or communities in the city-regions are allocated their own product function and are requested to produce the necessary labor power. We can study the family in the local community as a unit of the production of labor. It is this perspective that enables us to analyze the family and community in the city-regions in the capitalist world economy.

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