Exam 20: Population and Urbanization

Demographers claim that economic development is the best incentive for increasing the birth rate because greater economic prosperity allows people to be able to afford more children.

Compare and contrast Malthus and Marx on the problem of overpopulation.

Sociologists call the proliferation of lifestyles and subcultures in the postmodern city:

In the concentric zone model,Zone 2 was:

According to Brym and Lie,the postmodern city:

Thomas Malthus believed that aid to the poor is counterproductive to population control.

If urban space can be bought and sold for profit it has become:

The ____ city is a "vehicle for capital accumulation" according to John Hannigan.

Which is NOT a stage of European population development according to demographic transition theory?

Which of the following is NOT one of the critiques of the Chicago school?

The lowering of the total fertility rate in Kerala,India illustrates the idea that population growth depends not just on a society's level of industrialization but also on its level of gender inequality.

The theory of human ecology refers to a struggle by different groups to inhabit the most rewarding and optimal locations in a city as ____.

According to Malthus,while food supplies increase ____,population size grows ____.

Which group of sociologists see urban space not just as an arena for the unfolding of social processes like competition and differentiation,but also as a set of commodified social relations.

Cities are as anonymous and alienating as many sociologists once believed them to be.