The Advantages And Differences Between City And Suburban Life

comes a time in everyone’s life when we ask ourselves the age-old question which has tormented so many, “Should I live in the city or in the country?” Imagine deciding whether to live in just one specific area for the rest of your life. Many would argue that the hectic lifestyle that a big city provides clearly places it ahead of a suburban landscape. Others, however, would claim that the serene and restful environment of the countryside is much more satisfying than the city could ever be. It is important

to the process of people moving to cities or other heavily settled places. The term urbanization also describes changes in social organization that happens as a consequence of heavily populated areas. Urbanization is a process. It is what happens when rural areas are changed into urban areas. According to Louis Wirth, the components of urbanization include size, density, and heterogeneity and these are the independent variables that create a distinct way of life called “urbanism.” (Palen, 2012)

traits, and differences in skills and abilities, as well as values and attitudes. Adding extra burden is strain brought on by geographical differences. These very challenges can be used as

themselves out of the culture that needs them. Why are so few kids graduating from our urban schools college-bound? Why are the few who go to college so ill-prepared when they arrive? We live in a nation where education is a prominent force of succeeding in life. Children learn critical and analytical skills for twelve years in preparation to graduate high school and prospectively go on to receive a college degree. Being educated is an integral part of success in our society. School helps children learn social

culture that needs them. Why are there so few college-bound kids graduating from our urban schools, and why are the ones who do go to college so ill-prepared when they arrive? We live in a nation where education is a prominent force of succeeding in life. Children learn critical and analytical skills for twelve years in school to prepare to graduate high school, and go on to receive a two- or four-year college education. Being educated is an integral part of society. School helps children learn social

In my recent adult life, I have always liked to joke around about my association with every agent group in contemporary America as a straight, white, able-bodied, middle class, Christian, European, suburban, cis-gendered male from a nuclear family in the Midwest. It feels at times that I was plucked from a 1950’s advertisement. Additionally, through most of my life, I was surrounded by people who share the same identity and did not get regularly exposed to difference until I came to Ohio State. As

as, “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Mills 2002:3). Sociological Imagination is the ability to watch a group and see what they do socially, watching their interactions, and seeing their influence on each other. This can influence their perspectives on life and how they see things sociologically. I lived in Erie, Pennsylvania for most of elementary schooling. I grew up in a small, mainly white, suburban town and went to the local public school. Growing

This is significant for the discussion of ritual to note the difference in suburban villa house structure verses the previously stated traditional Roman house. The Roman Villa has long been epitomized as an elegant and luxurious refuge, and a haven removed from the commotion of everyday life. Even in antiquity the time spent at villas were synonymous with pleasure, wealth, and leisure. As the letters of Cicero and Pliny expressively

originate. It also looks at the different types of communities. Communities are defined as “a spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging” (Schaefer, 548). It can be based on a place of residence, such as a city, neighborhood, or a particular school district. It

paper is going to look at four types of diversity and demographic characteristics that impact individual behavior in the work place and in everyday life settings. The four groups to be examined are Gender, Age, Geographical Differences, and Personality Traits. Gender When examining the differences between men and women in the work place women have made great strides in contributing their efforts in a positive manner when given the opportunity. In the