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Louis Wirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (434 words) |
 | Wirth writes that urbanism is a form of social organisation that is harmful to culture, Wirth details the city as a “Substitution of secondary for primary contacts, the weakening of bonds of kinship, the declining social significance of the family, the disappearance of neighbourhood and the undermining of traditional basis of social solidarity”. |
| Wirth was concerned with the effects of the city upon family unity, and he believed urbanisation leads to a ‘low and declining urban reproduction rates … families are smaller and more frequently without children than in the country’. |
| Wirth continues, marriage tends to be postponed, and the proportion of single people is growing leading to isolation and less interaction. |
| Louis Wirth, President 1947 (2391 words) |
| Louis Wirth was born in Gumenden, a small village in Germany in 1897. |
| Wirth was elected by his peers to serve as President of the American Sociological Society (later changed to Association) in 1947. |
| Louis Wirth, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, died on May 3, 1952, at the age of fifty-four years. |
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