Exam 15: Population and Urbanization: Living on Spaceship Earth

Which of the following is not an assumption that Thomas Malthus makes in his theory of population?

Cities with more than 10 million people are known as megacities.

Compare and contrast Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Provide an example of each.

Religious conflicts are a push factor in migration.

In country Z, both birth rates and death rates are high. Country Z is most likely in __________ of the demographic transition.

Which of the following sociologists argued that two factors-intensity and stimulation-cause city people to have different attitudes, beliefs, and values than those in rural areas?

Neo-Malthusians favor the reliance on moral restraint rather than contraception as a means to control population growth.

Average fertility rates are lower in developed Global North countries than they are in Global South countries.

In city Y, 100 babies were born and 75 people died this year. The natural increase rate in city Y is:

The world's population doubles every 102 years.

Define and describe what is meant by communities, as defined in the text. Provide examples.

A primary criticism of demographic transition theory is that:

The number of people older than age 64 compared with those between 15 and 64 is called the youth dependency ratio.

Thomas Malthus's population theory has been critiqued for being ethnocentric.

How would Louis Wirth explain city dwellers?

The creation of a rationally based consumer society based on major Western trends is known as McDonaldization.

If a country wants to control population growth, raising the status of women is key.

Industrialization is the transformation from traditional, mostly agrarian communities to contemporary, bureaucratized states.

The statement, "Inequitable distribution and control of resources is at the heart of the population problem" most closely reflects:

In the United States, rural areas have fewer than 1,000 persons per square mile.