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  2. Urban sociology - Wikipedia

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    Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments.

  3. List of metropolitan areas in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Demographia and world Atlas give figures for the contiguous cities of Quanzhou, Jinjiang and Shishi. City Population includes these three cities in its figures for Xiamen (population 4-4.8 million), giving a total population of 10,000,000. However, Xiamen is not actually contiguous with the three other cities and this statistic is not taken ...

  4. Social geography - Wikipedia

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    Harlan H. Barrows, a geographer at the University of Chicago, nevertheless regarded social geography as one of the three major divisions of geography. [28] Another pre-war concept that combined elements of sociology and geography was the one established by Dutch sociologist Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz and his Amsterdam School of Sociography.

  5. List of Asian cities by population within city limits - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest cities in Asia ranked according to population within their city limits. It deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries ( municipalities ) as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas , which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city.

  6. East–West dichotomy - Wikipedia

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    Further, residents of different parts of the world perceive the boundaries differently; for example, some European scholars define Russia as East, but most agree that it is the West's second complementary part, [3] and Islamic nations regard it and other predominantly Christian nations as the West. [2]

  7. In a remote corner of Asia, one of the world’s oldest cities ...

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    Founded in around 700 BCE, Samarkand is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Here’s what visitors heading to this Uzbekistan city can expect.

  8. List of urban agglomerations in Asia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of urban agglomerations in Asia by population. [1] An urban area (built-up urban area or urban agglomeration) is fundamentally different from a metropolitan area. A metropolitan area is a labor market (and a housing market).

  9. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [1]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.