Question 1

Most population growth will occur in the poorest and least developed countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

The UN predicts that by 2050 the world's urban population will be the same size as the entire world's population back in 2004.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

According to Kingsley Davis, cities and urbanization…

Accepted Answer

A)  have been key features of human life since our beginnings.
B)  have been around much longer than other aspects of society, such as language and religion.
C)  are impossible to date accurately.
D)  are relatively recent developments in human history. D

Question 4

A microlevel approach to urban living is needed, because macrolevel approaches ignore…

Accepted Answer

A)  emergent creative aspects of individuals and the emergent quality of social interaction.
B)  urban class structures and their effects on access to resources that people need to live.
C)  urbanization, urban growth, and urban transition.
D)  how interactional patterns are determined by large-scale social structures.

Question 5

What is one of the most common consequences of rapid population growth in developing countries?

Accepted Answer

A)  increased mobility
B)  formal economic growth
C)  increased healthcare
D)  shantytowns

Question 6

Hutter grew up in a neighborhood that was spatially segregated, but culturally, institutionally, and socially integrated.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Explain how symbolic interactionism can contribute to the study of urban sociology.Be sure to consider the work of Thomas, Park, Strauss, and Lofland.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Explain how symbolic interactionism can contribute to...

Question 8

Elijah Anderson, in his essay "Cosmopolitan Canopy," observed that our contemporary diversity is a consequence of…

Accepted Answer

A)  immigration.
B)  industrialization.
C)  globalization.
D)  All of the above

Question 9

Barbara Boyle Torrey notes that the most striking examples of the ongoing urbanization of the world are the…

Accepted Answer

A)  increasing number of large Western cities.
B)  rise of megacities with 10 million or more people.
C)  rise of small towns in Asia.
D)  changes that have led to a reversal of the urban revolutions.

Question 10

The statement, "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences," refers to…

Accepted Answer

A)  urban reality.
B)  the world of strangers.
C)  the definition of the situation.
D)  urban imagery.

Question 11

Perry, Abbott, and Hutter developed the urban imagery approach because they felt that too few symbolic interactionists had investigated…

Accepted Answer

A)  the effects of urban ecological issues on urban images.
B)  the effects of urban political economy on symbolic interactionism as an approach to understanding cities.
C)  how urban imagery had affected the two North Atlantic islands that Hutter refers to.
D)  the interactional dynamics at the center of urban imagery and the degree to which imagery acts as an independent variable in shaping urban life.

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT one of Blumer's basic premises of symbolic interactionism?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cities are shaped by the social class structure of the society in which they exist.
B)  Human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings that the things have for them.
C)  The meanings of things arise out of the social interactions one has with others.
D)  These meanings are handled or modified through an interpretive process used by persons in dealing with the objects or situations that they encounter.

Question 13

Symbolic interactionism begins with the basic premise that…

Accepted Answer

A)  people are active interpreters of their environment.
B)  people's behavior is completely shaped by their social class.
C)  people focus on the biotic environment in deciding how to act.
D)  people take their cues for behavior from large-scale social structures.

Question 14

An urban political economist would understand cities and urban life by focusing on…

Accepted Answer

A)  the urban ecological environment.
B)  urban class structures and their effects on access to resources.
C)  the use of shared symbols to make sense of the world.
D)  unconscious psychological processes that determine the mental health of urbanites.

Question 15

Hutter explains two analytical interests that symbolic interactionists have had in understanding cities, and he suggests a third approach.What are these approaches?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Hutter explains two analytical interests that symbolic...

Question 16

Thomas argues that people respond to the meaning a situation has for them, not just to the objective features of a situation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The importance of cities is reflected in Mumford's idea that cities…

Accepted Answer

A)  were necessary before agriculture could develop.
B)  historically undermine the possibility of preserving the power and culture of a community.
C)  are the points of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community.
D)  are the oldest and therefore the most important type of human settlement.

Question 18

The importance of Thomas and Znaneicki's study The Polish Peasant, is that it showed how individuals' understanding of their lives and circumstances could enable them to…

Accepted Answer

A)  accept their lives and circumstances as they are.
B)  make an impact on and change their environment.
C)  use theory to resign themselves to their fate.
D)  understand the nature of the urban transition.

Question 19

Symbolic interactionists believe that any environmental space, whether a building, a street, or a city, should be seen in terms of its…

Accepted Answer

A)  physical structure.
B)  physical characteristics.
C)  symbolic meaning.
D)  biotic environment.

Question 20

Strauss argues that one invariant characteristic of city life is that people "see" the city by using certain stylized and symbolic objects.He further argues that people's images of these objects are due to the…

Accepted Answer

A)  city as a way of life.
B)  world of strangers that people inhabit.
C)  social worlds and relationships that people have.
D)  environmental contexts within which people live.

Exam 1: Introduction to Experiencing Cities

Most population growth will occur in the poorest and least developed countries.

The UN predicts that by 2050 the world's urban population will be the same size as the entire world's population back in 2004.

According to Kingsley Davis, cities and urbanization…

A microlevel approach to urban living is needed, because macrolevel approaches ignore…

What is one of the most common consequences of rapid population growth in developing countries?

Hutter grew up in a neighborhood that was spatially segregated, but culturally, institutionally, and socially integrated.

Explain how symbolic interactionism can contribute to the study of urban sociology.Be sure to consider the work of Thomas, Park, Strauss, and Lofland.

Elijah Anderson, in his essay "Cosmopolitan Canopy," observed that our contemporary diversity is a consequence of…

Barbara Boyle Torrey notes that the most striking examples of the ongoing urbanization of the world are the…

The statement, "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences," refers to…

Perry, Abbott, and Hutter developed the urban imagery approach because they felt that too few symbolic interactionists had investigated…

Which of the following is NOT one of Blumer's basic premises of symbolic interactionism?

Symbolic interactionism begins with the basic premise that…

An urban political economist would understand cities and urban life by focusing on…

Hutter explains two analytical interests that symbolic interactionists have had in understanding cities, and he suggests a third approach.What are these approaches?

Thomas argues that people respond to the meaning a situation has for them, not just to the objective features of a situation.

The importance of cities is reflected in Mumford's idea that cities…

The importance of Thomas and Znaneicki's study The Polish Peasant, is that it showed how individuals' understanding of their lives and circumstances could enable them to…

Symbolic interactionists believe that any environmental space, whether a building, a street, or a city, should be seen in terms of its…

Strauss argues that one invariant characteristic of city life is that people "see" the city by using certain stylized and symbolic objects.He further argues that people's images of these objects are due to the…