Relevance of Chicago school ideas in the focus of urbanization and ruralization processes

The relevance of the ideas of the Chicago School of Sociology is explained by the fragmentation of comparative sociological studies of city and village and increases many times against the background of modern processes of urbanization and ruralization. The history of urban and rural sociology of city begins in the 19th century, but today authoritative centers for the study of urban and rural communities, urban and rural cultures are not actively developing. The authors show that modern parallel but multi-directional processes of urbanization and ruralization increase the relevance of the ideas of the Chicago School.