From community to metropolis: the Latin American city as a laboratory

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Adrián Gorelik
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/140
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 121-13616 File size 146 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2026-140006
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This paper analyses the centrality, in Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s, of the sociological theme of the “transition” from traditional to modern society, as well as the peculiar way in which this theme combined the extension, at the same time universal and controversial, of two notions that had been developed at the University of Chicago between the late 1930s and the mid-1940s, that of “urban culture”, proposed by Louis Wirth, and that of the “folk-urban continuum”, proposed by Robert Redfield.

Keywords: community, metropolis, Latin American urban thought, Chicago School, folk-urban continuum, urban culture

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Adrián Gorelik, Dalla comunità alla metropoli: la città latinoamericana come laboratorio in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 140/2026, pp 121-13616, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2026-140006