Exam 20: Population and Urbanization

Members of the Chicago school have defined the city of Chicago as having a particular way of life that was reflected in people's attitudes and behaviours. What term did they use to describe this?

A local real estate developer and group of investors use media to put pressure on a local politician to ensure that certain urban properties come up for public sale. What would Logan and Molotch call this group?

According to sociologists, what is the process of population growth mainly governed by?

Which of the following is a fact that casts doubt on Malthus's predictions about population growth?

How are class divisions maintained in postmodern cities?

In 1960, South Korea had a total fertility rate of 6.0. Yet by 1989, South Korea's total fertility rate had dropped to a mere 1.6. What first prompted this dramatic decrease in the total fertility rate?

According to the textbook, which of the following was the concentric zone model most applicable to at the beginning of the twentieth century?

Over the years, Barbara has watched as older parts of the city are torn down and replaced by modern office towers. Which process of human ecology theory has Barbara been witnessing?

Newlyweds Ray and Esmé are spending their wedding night in a theme room at a hotel at the West Edmonton Mall. The following day, while they are looking for things to outfit their new marital home, they are also planning to ride the mall's rollercoaster and use the water park. What does John Hannigan call this aspect of life in the postmodern city?

What do we call the situation whereby each women of childbearing age gives birth to enough children to keep a population stable?

Simone, a Malthusian, believes that overpopulation is not a problem because there have been many recent natural disasters like tsunamis and tornadoes that leave people homeless and living in conditions of disease and starvation. What do we call this type of population control?

Benny considers himself a Malthusian and agrees with Malthus that there are two undisputable "facts" about people. Which of the following is one of these facts?

Which group believes that urban settings are spaces where commodified social relations occur?

In what type of country are most of the fastest-growing cities in the world today?

According to Louis Wirth, what is city life characterized by?

Rajesh lives in a nation where the numbers of deaths in the population per year outnumber the number of births. In which stage of development would his nation be classified?

Like many other middle-class people, Sharon bought a house in great need of repair for very little money in the Four Corners district of Toronto. As soon as she renovated the house and turned it into a bed-and-breakfast, she demanded that local government and the police remove the homeless people who still live in the area. What has Sharon engaged in?

According to the textbook, when will the world population reach 8 billion?

Brian refused to donate money to the Somali famine relief fund. When asked why he was so miserly, his response was that famines and pestilence were nature's way of controlling population growth since people wouldn't take responsibility for the number of children they were producing. Brian's point of view reflects the perspective of which of the following?

The Indian state of Kerala had a total fertility rate of 1.7 in the most recent census, much lower than the fertility rate for India as a whole. How did Kerala achieve this reduced fertility rate?