https://mail.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijcs <p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The International Journal of Criminology and Sociology monitors the rapidly changing interdisciplinary fields of criminology and sociology. It is a forum for the publication and discussion of theory, research, policy, and practice in the related aspects of this discipline.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">IJCS is a valuable resource for intellectuals dealing with the various aspects related to crime, whether its criminology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, law, economics, politics or social work. It is also of great value to professionals concerned with crime, law, criminal justice, politics, and penology.</span></p> Lifescience Global en-US International Journal of Criminology and Sociology 1929-4409 <h4>Policy for Journals/Articles with Open Access</h4> <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p> <ul> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.<br /><br /></li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post links to their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work</li> </ul> <h4>Policy for Journals / Manuscript with Paid Access</h4> <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p> <ul> <li>Publisher retain copyright .<br /><br /></li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post links to their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work .</li> </ul> https://mail.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijcs/article/view/10847 <p>Within Mocombe’s theories of phenomenological structuralism and consciousness field theory, this article outlines the emergence of the process of urbanization and urbanism as a way of life in the capitalist world-system. The paper connects, causally, the emergence of the latter with the formation of the former two, i.e., urbanization and urbanism, in the West.</p> Paul C. Mocombe Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2026-02-11 2026-02-11 15 1 15 10.6000/1929-4409.2026.15.01