city

sociology

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

historian

statistician

demographer

university teacher

scientific organization

National Academy of Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

is always obsolescent. Thus, the massive destruction of many older cities would probably add eventually to the impetus of urban growth.

Today virtually every part of the world is more urbanized than any region was in antiquity. Urbanization is so widespread, so much a part of industrial civilization, and gaining so rapidly, that any return to rurality, even with major catastrophes, appears unlikely. On the contrary, since every city is obsolescent to some degree - more obsolescent the older it is - the massive destruction of many would probably add eventually to the impetus of urban growth. Origin and Growth of Urbanization.

Sociology is a general science of society'.

Kingsley Davis

Authors(0)

Kingsley DavisThinkers

Kingsley Davis