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Cities of peasants: The political economy of urbanization in the Third World
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Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and Change during the Neoliberal Era
Alejandro Portes,Kelly Hoffman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors in this article proposed a framework for the analysis of social classes in Latin America and presented evidence on the composition of the class structure in the region and its evolution during the last two decades, corresponding to the years of implementation of a new economic model.
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The Built Environment and Spatial Form
Denise L. Lawrence,Setha M. Low +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the relevant literature can be found in this article, where the authors define the major areas of research in the field in terms of issues and issues of social and cultural factors responsible for the variation in built forms.
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Understanding Mexican migration to the United States.
TL;DR: In this article, the migration process is divided into four phases corresponding to different events in the migrant career-departure, repetition, settlement, and return and logit probability models are estimated to study the determinants of each event.
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The New Urban Sociology
Mark Gottdiener,Ray Hutchison +1 more
TL;DR: The origins of urbanization and the characteristics of cities urbanization in the United States the metropolitan period in United States -1920 to 1960 the restructuring of settlement space - 1960 to 1990 the rise of urban sociology contemporary urban sociology - the socio-spatial perspective people, lifestyles and the metropolis neighbourhoods, the public environment and theories of urban life metropolitan problems - poverty, racism, crime, housing and fiscal crisis local politics - city and suburban governments third world urbanization urbanization.
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Globalisation as hybridisation
TL;DR: Globalisation is usually interpreted as a process of homogenisation, but considering that there are multiple globalisation processes at work, this is hardly adequate as discussed by the authors, and globalisation is also often tie...