Difference between Rural World and Urban World

P. A. Sorokin and C. C. Zimmerman in their “Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology” have given the following decisive differences between rural and urban words:

Topic	Rural World	Urban World
Occupation	The totality of cultivators and their families. In the community are usually a few representatives of several non-agricultural pursuits.	The totality of people engaged principally in manufacturing, mechanical pursuits, trade, commerce, professions, governing, and other non-agricultural occupations.
Environment	The predominance of nature over the anthropic-social environment. Direct relationship to nature.	Greater isolation from nature. The predominance of the man-made environment over natural, poorer aid, stone, and iron.
Size of community	Open farms or small communities, “Agricultural” and size of the community are negatively correlated	As a rule in the same country and in the same period, the size of the urban community is much larger than the rural community. In other words, urbanity and the size of the community are positively correlated.
Density of population	In the same country and at the same period the duty is lower than in the urban community. Generally density and rural are negatively correlated.	Greater than in rural communities. Urbanity and density are positively correlated.
Heterogeneity and homogeneity of the population	Compare with urban populations, rural communities are more homogeneous in racial and psychological traits (Negative correlation with heterogeneity).	More heterogeneous than rural communities (in the same country and at the same time). Urbanity and heterogeneity are positively correlated.
Social differentiation and stratification	Rural differentiation and stratification are less than urban	Differentiation and stratification show a positive correlation with urbanity.
Mobility	Territorial, occupation and other forms of social mobility of the population are comparatively less intensive. Normally the migration current carries more individuals from the country to the city.	More intensive. Urbanity and mobility are positively correlated. Only in periods of social catastrophe is the migration from the city to the country greater than from the country to the city.
System of interaction	Less numerous contacts per man. Narrower area of the interaction system of its members and the whole aggregate. More prominent part is occupied by primary contacts. The predominance of personal and relatively durable relations. Comparative simplicity and sincerity of relations, “man has interacted as a human person”.	More numerous contacts. The wider area of interaction system per aggregate. The predominance of secondary contacts. The predominance of impersonal casual and short live relations. Greater complexity, manifolds, superficiality, and standardized formality of relations. Man has interacted as a “number” and “address”