Urban environment as a determinant of behavioral practices: formats of sociological conceptualization

The sociological study of the city as a social and cultural phenomenon is fundamentally important for the description and understanding of nowadays world. The human transformation of the environment has long been regarded as not unilateral: the impact of the urban environment on the behavioral practices is ubiquitous due to various factors and obvious in many spheres of human activity. A number of complex scientific theories and not just some separate works are trying to prove that in the modern world the city is not only a type of settlement - it is a complex socio-cultural formation with many specific features that make the life of urban dwellers quite special and therefore it becomes the focus of sociological interest.

city, urban environment, behavioral practices, urbanism, lifestyle