Exam 16: Environment, Population and Social Change

The 2010 U.S. census is estimated to have undercounted approximately 2 percent of the country's population. The estimated undercount for Hispanics is as high as _____ percent.

How does modernization theory view the impact of technological change? Illustrate your response with an example.

According to the text, since the 1940s, the United States has become increasingly characterized as _____, with social interaction less intimate and less emotional, although certain primary groups, such as the family and the friendship group, still permit strong emotional ties.

In the 1920s, _____ argued that the city was a center of distant, cold interpersonal interaction, and as a result, urban dwellers experienced alienation, loneliness, and powerlessness.

It wasn't until 1990s that most countries recognized population growth as a problem.

Which federal document requires a national census to be conducted every ten years?

_____ is the transmission of cultural elements from one society or cultural group to another.

Define cultural diffusion and give an example.

The United States consumes approximately _____ percent of the world's energy but is home to only 5 percent of the world's population.

Durkheim argued that societies move from a state of _____, a cohesiveness based on the similarity among its members, to _____, a cohesiveness based on difference.

According to your text, the crude death rate, the number of deaths each year per 1000 people, is a good indicator of the _____ in a country.

How did Malthus envision famine, disease, and war? Was he accurate? Why or why not?

As part of the National Origins Quota Act in 1924, immigration from _____ Europe was encouraged while immigration from _____ Europe was discouraged.

The U.S. Census allows people to select more than one category to describe their race. In the 2010 Census, about _____ percent of Americans were categorized as having more than one race.

Which theoretical perspective is particularly suited to analyzing the quixotic character of fads and fashion and how people adapt and respond to these behaviors?

The term _____ refers to people creating new norms and organizational structures in response to emerging situations.

In the United States, stage 3 of the demographic transition model, characterized by low birthrate and low death rate, began

Arnold J. Toynbee, the principal theorist of cyclical social change, argued that societies are born, mature, decay, and sometimes die.

Discuss how the United States compares to other countries in terms of infant mortality. What are the key causes of the U.S. infant mortality rate?

Gesellschaft is German for "community."