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The urban process author, Leonard Reissman (1921-1975), was a professor of sociology and human relations at Tulane University from 1967. A director of Tulane urban studies center and receipt of several professional awards and honors like the fellow, center of advanced study in behavioral science (1963-64). In 1970, he became professor and chairman of the department of sociology at Cornell University. He also served from time to time as visiting professor or fellow at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. During his years at Tulane, he was engaged in a number of cooperative projects based on studies of the local community and its institutions. In 1975, Cornell University issued a memorial statement after his death from a heart attack.

This publication serves various audiences. Students, graduates, and researchers from social science fields like geography who are interested in the sociology of cities, the study of social life, and urban dynamics of the urban process. Practitioners like planners would benefit from the introduction as he says the piecemeal solutions to the urban problems and why most solutions are temporary not original. Politicians who are involved in defining the urban problems and failures who want to go further to find permanent solutions for these failures. Urban designers who want to stand on the main forces that affect the city’s development and transformation. Researchers researching the urban theory and the subject of typologies of change in urbanization. Architects may benefit from understanding the urban process in detail to know how it affects their work and the cause of the invention of new urban concepts like the garden city.

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husamTalib | Sep 15, 2022 |
When American sociologists analyze class, they usually focus only on the middle class, and indeed their primary emphasis tends to be on social status questions of the middle class, which are not, strictly speaking, germane to the issue of class in the wider sociopolitical sense. Reissman recognizes this and explains it as arising as a result of the shift from the Marxian emphasis upon class to the American emphasis upon status. Reissman tries to demonstrate that it is possible to speak about class without being in the Marxist camp. His explanation for the unwillingness to recognize classes other than the middle class is the underlying belief in social equality. In other words, a classless society is simply another name for democracy. Reissman does bring up Marxist concepts but downplays their source by wrapping them up in references to Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and other authorities. Underneath his rather opaque style, Reissman shows a commitment to the notion that there must be some structure in the social order, although again he points to Weber rather than to Marx. In his carefully chosen language, Reissman concludes that “the economic institution provides the major dimension for stratification in American society . . . it is the economic base that is generic and all others are derivative.” In ordinary language this comes pretty close to saying that ownership is what distinguishes one class from another. In the end, the picture one gets from Reissman is not so different from that of C Wright Mills. Reissman’s work is much superior to that of near-namesake David Riesman. [1960]… (mer)
 
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