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Sociology Uncertain: the Ideology of the Rural-Urban Continuum*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Francisco Benet
Francisco Benet
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Paris
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Urban sociology impresses by the vastness of its field, its richness, the collections of data, the sophistication of its theories, and by its failure to provide sociological rules of wide application. Its subject matter does not lend itself to simple treatment and many of its principal theories had to be rejected after testing (yet we still carry several of these like millstones around our necks). At this pace progress is slow and we hold no hope of catching up with the current world urban growth. Urban sociologists must take Queen of Hearts' advice and run with all their might to stay in the same place.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , October 1963 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1963

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