Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. An important aspect of urban sociology is community. Community is an area in which feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals occurs usually where the person resides.
There are many inequalities in urban areas even today. One of these areas which inequality still exists is with gender and sexuality. However, as a means to find resonance with other members in the gay and lesbian community, these people find ways to reside in communities with people who are also homosexual.
An urban community may be defined as a group of people having a certain specialized economic recognizable characteristics. In the above definition of an urban community the social characteristics is the most distinguishing & vital.
The following are the special or distinctive features of urban community,
After the industrial revolution, sociologists such as Max Weber, and particularly George Simmel in works such as The Metropolis and Mental life (1903), focused on the increasing process of urbanization and the effects it had on feelings of Social alienation and anonymity.
The first came from the sociologists at the University of Chicago, emphasizing the demographic and ecological structure of the city, the social disorganization and pathology of the urban normative order and the social psychology of urban existence.
The second current has come to be called ‘community studies.’ It consists of broad-gauged ethnographic studies of the social structure of individual communities and the ways of life of the inhabitants.
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