Exam 20: Population and Urbanization

Rita and her family are thrilled to have bought a house in a clean,quiet neighbourhood.The neighbourhood,which is outside the downtown core,has fairly uniform single family housing,and has a water park and outdoor basketball court for children to play at.What term do sociologists use to describe this way of life?

In 2015,which of the following cities is projected to become the world's largest city?

Which of the following is a critique of Malthus's predictions?

Christopher,a gay man living in a small town,gets his social needs met mainly through Internet chat rooms with other gay men and lesbians in big cities.Which of the following does his experience reflect a critique of?

Around what year do population experts predict that the world population will stabilize at approximately 9.5 billion?

Which of the following is a critique of the demographic transition theory?

Gentrification is the process by which portions of the inner city are taken over by working-class or homeless people.

What do we call the movement of people into a country in order to settle there?

Bill has lived all his life in a place where his neighbours get together every weekend to barbecue after church and where most of the community goes out to support the local hockey team when they play games against other communities.According to Louis Wirth,what is Bill's experience typical of?

Erik has been studying population and has found a lot of evidence that declines in fertility often accompany declines in standards of living.Which theory does his finding seem to contradict?

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?

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?

Compare and contrast Thomas Robert Malthus and Karl Marx on the problem of overpopulation.

How did the government of Kerala,India,solve its overpopulation problem?

What problem did the new urban sociology aim to correct?

How did class inequality affect population growth in South Korea?

Describe the concentric zones of Chicago in the 1920s.Can this model be applied to cities today?

According to the textbook,which of the following most powerfully shapes the postmodern city?

Tommy thinks that changes in population are the result of industrialization and the shifts in cultural values that accompany it.Which theory is he most likely to support?

In Canada,there are approximately 105 females or every 100 males.What do we call this rate comparison?