He has been an active urban sociologist, editing and publishing several articles and books.

The panel included a community leader, an urban sociologist, a real estate agent and a property owner.

All this gave powerful ammunition to urban sociologists writing from the mid-1970s onwards.

The reasons for this are clear if we examine the work of two well known urban sociologists, Pahl and Saunders.

By turns, she could be confused with an urban sociologist, a political economist, a city planner or a politician.

Burgess was hired as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago.

He died in 1978 from a coronary thrombosis and was survived by his wife Ruth Glass, the urban sociologist.

His interests included city life, minority group behaviour and mass media and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.

This idea has also been developed by a number of urban sociologists and geographers.

Vergara's thinking as an urban sociologist has never been orthodox.