Exam 15: Population and Urbanization: Living on Spaceship Earth

According to Durkheim, New York City would be characterized by:

According to the text, the population explosion began with the end of the feudal period in Europe and beginning of industrialization in developing countries and spread around the globe.

The movement of populations to cities is known as urbanization.

Explain Malthus's theory of population and detail the critiques. How have neo-Malthusians addressed those critiques? Do you personally believe in neo-Malthusian theory? If so, why? If not, what evidence would you need to support neo-Malthusian theory?

Tia is interested in studying the way that farm families decide how many children to have. She feels that the number of workers needed to sustain the farm will relate to the number of children that families have, with those needing more workers having more children. Which of the following theories is Tia likely using?

If the youth dependency ratio is 9 out of every 20 people under 15 years of age in country X, then which of the following is most likely true about country X?

Although women are having fewer children than ever before in country X, the population is expected to continue growing for another 20 years. How is this possible?

Because of their widespread availability, less than 1 million women around the world lack access to contraceptives.

Which of the following would have the most potential to undermine Malthus's theory?

Explain the push-pull theory of migration, and provide examples of each.

According to the text, which of the following megacities is the largest in the world?

List and briefly discuss at least two of the four characteristics of neighborhoods presented in the text.

The birth rate is also referred to as ____________ and the death rate is also known as _____________.

Mechanical solidarity was Durkheim's term for the glue that held a society together through shared beliefs, values, and traditions.

Epidemics and wars are positive checks on population according to Malthus.

According to the text, the most important demographic processes are fertility, mortality, and migration.

The study of human populations is known as:

The housing model by which residents control their own housing by, for example, living in cooperatives and rental buildings that they manage is called the:

Which of the following is predicted to have the most impact on urban planning in the future?

Among the first sociologists in the United States were urban scholars who studied problems in the city of Chicago.