The Concept of Dominance and World-Organization

McKenzie, R. D.

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“…He made a coherent argument for linkages among leading global cities and for the existence of regional hubs of telecommunications and decision-making; his empirical evidence, though limited, provided support for the theoretical arguments. McKenzie's (1927) insight that telecommunications innovations broke the bond between the movement of information and the movement of commodities and people, thus permitting a revolution in spatial organization, was followed up implicitly with the recognition that international trade services cluster in decision-making centers, especially those with high-level financial services (O'Connor, 1987). However, the full implications for the global network of cities of the disjunction between the physical movement of commodities and movement of information, which is a more direct indicator of the control of capital exchange, remained undeveloped for the global scale, although a theoretical framework, with empirical implications, had been proposed for the national scale (Meyer, 1980).…”

Section: Research During the 1980smentioning

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The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities

Meyer

2003

Urban Geography

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The significant rise in global commodity trade, foreign direct investment, and global financial exchange during the 1980s was a key impetus to the contemporaneous sharp jump in attention of urban geographers and other social scientists to conceptualizing and empirically examining the global network of cities. Scholars accepted an assumption that the new international division of labor recast global relations, and this has not been questioned subsequently. Research during the 1980s focused on global corporations, corporate services, financial institutions, telecommunications, and transportation as actors or modes of linking global cities. This broad coverage framed subsequent research to the present, but the theory of the global network of cities did not advance much beyond the initial formulations. After 1990 some embellishments were made to the theory, and these were widely accepted. Although other theoretical proposals were made, none gained wide acceptance; nevertheless, scholars made some progress in clarifying the behavior of business actors. Researchers accumulated rich empirical evidence about the global network of cities, including extensive evidence on network relations. If scholars are to make greater progress in understanding the global network of cities, the theory needs deepening. A reexamination of the assumption that the new international division of labor has recast global relations might encourage greater emphasis on the principles of the intermediary behavior of the actors most responsible for global network relations. [Key words: global city, multinational corporation, networks, new international division of labor, world system.]

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Section: Research During the 1980smentioning

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The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities

Meyer

2003

Urban Geography

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“…In the next eight chapters he described the structure and functioning of Cantonville's key institutions in a style typical of the Chicago neighborhood study. Finally, in the concluding chapters, the influence of the ecologist Roderick McKenzie (1925aMcKenzie ( , 1925bMcKenzie ( , 1927 was notable, for the analysis employed ecological concepts such as the "metropolis" and "hinterland" to explain the impact on the town of urbanization and industrialization (see also Hughes, 1936).…”

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The concept of social class: The contribution of Everett Hughes

Helmes-Hayes

2000

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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In French Canada in Transition (1943) and a set of related essays written between 1933 and 1941, Everett Hughes, a key figure in the “Second Chicago School” of sociology developed a novel and noteworthy conceptualization of social class. This contribution, which was not recognized outside of French‐language sociology in Quebec, was an integral element of Hughes's “interpretive institutional ecology” theoretical frame of reference. It combined elements of the classical ecological theory of class (human ecology, functionalism, Simmel), aspects of a Weber‐inspired analysis of class, status, and political power, and elements of a proto‐dependency analysis of Quebec's industrialization in the 1930s. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…First developed and elaborated by Gras (1922), McKenzie (1927McKenzie ( , 1933, and Bogue (1949), it has continued to stimulate research in human ecology (cf. Duncan et al, 1960;Lieberson, 1961;Hawley, 1963;Lincoln, 1978;Ross, 1982;Eberstein and Frisbie, 1982).…”

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“…In each of its theoretical explications, (e.g. Gras, 1922;McKenzie, 1927McKenzie, , 1933Hawley, 1950Hawley, , 1981, dominance is presented as a relational concept: the dominance-subordination relation is a control-coordination relation which integrates the functionally interdependent parts of the ecological organization.…”

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From Organicist to Relational Human Ecology

Haines¹

1985

Sociological Theory

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The Concept of Dominance and World-Organization

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The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities

The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities

The concept of social class: The contribution of Everett Hughes

From Organicist to Relational Human Ecology

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