Exam 19: Population and Urbanization

The first decade of the twenty-first century has resonated with pleas from undocumented workers and leaders of various immigration reform organizations asking for change in U.S.immigration and citizenship laws for millions of people who dream of U.S.citizenship.

According to sociologist __________,the size,density,and heterogeneity of urban populations typically result in an elaborate division of labor and in spatial segregation of people by race/ethnicity,social class,religion,and/or lifestyle.

The simplest measure of mortality is the __________ rate.

Describe the study of demography and define basic demographic concepts.

Economist Thomas Malthus argued that the population would increase in a geometric (exponential) progression while the food supply would increase only by an arithmetic progression; thus,a __________ occurs.

Trace the historical development/emergence and evolution of the city to preindustrial cities.

Discuss migration as it relates to the study of population.

Discuss urban problems in the United States.

Which of the following statements regarding Ferdinand Tönnies' typology of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft is FALSE?

Discuss population composition as it relates to the study of population.

One measure of population composition is the __________,which is the number of males for every hundred females in a given population.

__________ typically identify rural communities as small,sparsely settled areas that have a relatively homogeneous population of people who primarily engage in agriculture.

Sociologist Ernest Burgess developed the __________,which is a description of the process of urban growth that views the city as a series of circular areas,each characterized by a different type of land use that developed from a central core.

Based on urbanization and the growth of cities,describe the conflict perspective as it relates to the political economy models.

According to sociologists Joe Feagin and Robert Parker,__________ include(s) capitalistic investments in production,workers,workplaces,land,and buildings.

According to sociologist Emile Durkheim,__________ is characterized by interdependence based on the elaborate division of labor found in large,urban societies.

New urban fringes,referred to as __________ cities,have been springing up beyond central-cities and suburbs in recent years.

According to the __________,overpopulation and rapid population growth result in global environmental problems,ranging from global warming and rain-forest destruction to famine and vulnerability to epidemics.

According to sociologists Joe Feagin and Robert Parker,__________ refers to the profits that industrialists,developers,bankers,and others make from buying,selling,and developing land and buildings.

__________ was one of the first scholars to systematically study the effects of population.He argued that "the power of population is infinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence (food) for man."