Exam 14: Environment and Urbanization

Hank was a sociologist who was interested in how people are socially organized in the physical spaces of a city. His specialty in sociology would be__________ .

The migration of people from countryside to cities, increasing the proportion of a population that lives in cities, is called

For more than 50 percent of the time that we humans have been on Earth, our ancestors have roamed about in search of food.

More than half of the worldʹs__________ are located in developing countries.

According to the conflict perspective, the expansion of cities into suburbs, and turning suburbs into edge cities was motivated by

According to the text, to consume more, we must produce more and thereby create more waste.

__________zones is the term used to refer to depressed urban areas that business, with the help of generous tax credits, would revive by creating jobs.

Many people act on the environment on the basis of self-interest. According to the parable of the ʺTragedy of the Commons,ʺ what can happen?

The migration of people from the countryside to city, increasing the proportion of the population that lives in the city is called__________ .

__________the environment and depleting its natural resources may amount to a slow form of suicide.

The 2000 census revealed all of the following major changes in American cities EXCEPT

A thin layer of air, water, and soil surrounding the earth is called__________

Some sociologists believe that the city life insulates people from others while other sociologists believe

The technical name for areas with a large, concentrated population and their adjacent communities is

The model of land use in which a city grows outward in wedge-shaped sections is called the__________ theory.

Living in an impersonal world of strangers, city dwellers are more lonely than rural and small-town people.

Policies that discourage the development of suburbs while encouraging the revitalizing inner cities are known as

Compared with the people who move out of a city, those left behind tend to be

If you are very interested in the relationship between people and animals, and the air, soil, and water, you would probably join a group dedicated to

Sociologist Louis Wirth identified three factors that create a distinct way of life called urbanism. Which of the following is NOT one of them?