Exam 19: Population and Urbanization

Since the 1960s,analysts suggest that residential segregation reflects discriminatory practices by landlords,homeowners,and white realtors and their agents,who engage in ________ people of color to different neighborhoods from those shown to their white counterparts.

__________ refers to the tendency of some neighborhoods,cities,or regions to grow and prosper while others stagnate and decline.

According to the __________ developed by urban sociologists Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman,cities do not have one center from which all growth radiates,but rather have numerous centers of development based on specific urban needs or activities.

Describe problems in global cities.

In 2010,the U.S.crude death rate was __________ per 1,000.

The __________ examines urban populations in terms of economic status,family status,and ethnic classification.

Discuss the functionalist perspective on urbanization and the growth of cities.

Neo-Malthusians refer to ___________ as the point at which no population increase occurs from year to year because the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.

According to sociologist Lynn M.Appleton,different kinds of cities have different __________,which are prevailing ideologies of how women and men should think,feel,and act; how access to social positions and control of resources should be managed; and how relationships between men and women should be conducted.

__________ refers to the physical location of people throughout a geographic area.

According to sociologist Herbert Gans,all of the following are categories of urban dwellers EXCEPT:

Sociologist Robert Park based his analysis of the city on __________,which is the study of the relationship between people and their physical environment.

Discuss the symbolic interactionist perspective on urbanization and the growth of cities.

Since __________,a dramatic population shift has occurred in the United States as thousands of families have moved from cities to suburbs.

According to sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies,Gesellschaft is a society in which social relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship and kinship and on intergenerational stability,such that people have a commitment to the entire group and feel a sense of togetherness.

The most basic measure of fertility is the cultivated birth rate-the number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.In 2004,the cultivated birth rate in the United States was 14.0.

According to sociologists Joe Feagin and Robert Parker,__________ include(s) governmental protection of the right to own and dispose of privately held property as owners see fit,and the role of government officials in promoting the interests of business elites and large corporations.

An important ecological process involved in the concentric zone theory,__________,is the process by which a new category of people or type of land use gradually predominates in an area formerly dominated by another group or activity.

Although most people think of the United States as highly urbanized,about __________ of the U.S.population resides in rural areas,identified by the U.S.Census Bureau as communities of 2,500 people or less.

An important ecological process in the concentric zone model; succession is the process by which a new category of people or type of land use arrives in an area previously occupied by another group or type of land use.