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Like Weber, Park saw in the modern city as a commercial structure that owed ‘its existence to the market place around which it sprang up’. Like Marx and Durkheim he saw in modern city life a complex division of labour driven by industrial competition. calculated self-interest and less by sentiments.
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With Tonnies, Park believed that this market dominance would result in the steady erosion of traditional ways of life yielding to gesellschaft like system based on occupation and vocational interests. Despite the problems it presents the city also offers freedom and tolerance. What many others such as Tonnies saw as disorganization, Park saw as potential for greater human experience. Both the criminal and the genius have the greater opportunity to develop his/her innate disposition much better in a bigger city than in a small town.
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