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The Urban Experience

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The Urban Experience: A Psychological Analysis
AN 323
Barney J. Barnett

Stanley Milgram basically started out by asking the question: “Where do we start in constructing urban theory and in laying out lines of research?” He determined that everyone must first start at observation. He said that Louis Wirth had the root of sociopsychological theory correct. The initial observations must be the population of the city, the density, and the heterogeneity. Milgram did find fault with Wirth in that these observations are totally external to the individual and are not directly linked to their psychological state. Milgram...

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