On the Discipline Norms and Research Positioning of Urban Sociology
Unlike sociology,which grasps social order by analyzing the social development process carried by cities,urban sociolo-gy believes that social order at least partially comes from the city and its internal activities.Therefore,it is based on the study of specif-ic social processes within cities and defines cities as population settlements that carry social operations.The corresponding research ob-ject is the resource allocation process closely related to social organizations.In order to achieve the integration of urban experience and order theory,urban sociology adopts the research method of"generalization of ideal types"to summarize the particularity of the specific location resource allocation process that shapes the urban spatial form.Under the limitation of the fundamental sociological problem of"the relationship between individuals and society",the integration of individuals into society through the possession of urban locational resources constitutes the basic problem of urban sociology.The disciplinary norms determine that the research task of urban sociology is to reveal how society is organized through cities,and its research positioning as a branch of sociology is also to explore social order from an organizational perspective.From the research experience of urban sociology,it can be seen that the branch disciplines of sociology are not simply using sociological theories and methods to analyze a certain social phenomenon or problem,but are based on the social order issues that sociology focuses on,discovering new research problems from specific types of human practice,and constructing their own knowledge system accordingly.
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