Urban Sociology
Include at least 3 professional journal articles in your research paper.
Topics (PICK ONE):
1. Urban housing/housing policies
2. Urban planning and change
3. Urban history
4. Economic globalization and inequality
5. Local welfare services
6. Vulnerable and marginalized groups in urban areas
7. Public space
8. Gentrification, socio-spatial segregation, and displacement
9. Commodification and financialization of housing
10. Touristification, city branding, and place making
11. Class, gender, and ethnicity in urban areas
12. Social groups, youth, family, and space
13. Communities and neighborhoods
14. Housing alternatives
15. Schooling
16. Welfare
YOU WILL BE ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR PAPER:
The purpose of this paper is to help you understand a discriminated individual and the effects of their social environment.
1. Introduce the topic
2. Discuss the historical aspects of this topic based on professional journals. How did it evolve and how was it perceived in society through time?
3. Discuss changes within this urban environment
4. What are the implications of discrimination and oppression? Describe these in detail.
5. What should the role of human rights and social justice with this topic?
6. What are the social responses to urban social movements?
7. How are urban sustainability and global environmental crisis related?
8. Discuss the social effects of mental disorders of this topic
10 pages excluding the title page and references
