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22 Cards in this Set
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Malthus |
As food supply increases arithmetically,population will grow exponentially. Eventually a lack of resources makepopulation control a necessity Men postpone marriage into later in life |
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Marx |
the main problem is social inequality. overpopulation = social inequality |
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Demographic transition theory |
4 periods of transition |
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pre-industrial |
high birth and death rates, slow population growth |
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early industrial and urbanization |
high birth rates fall in death rates, rapid population growth |
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mature industrial |
low birth and death rates, slow population increase |
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postindustrial |
Slow birth rate, slow death rate, population high |
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stages of urbanism |
1. mercantile 2. urban development 3. industrialization(railway) 4. redistribution (health care) 5. deindustrilization |
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Gemeinschaft |
natural community feeling in rural communities |
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Gessellschaft |
rational exchange community |
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what does Durkheim think? |
rural life = mechanical solidarity urban life = organic solidarity |
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the Chicago school of sociology |
- industrialization growth - diversity in cities as a result of immigration |
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explain the concentric zone model |
downtown in the middle. lower class neighborhoods around. middle class detached homes. high class suburbs on the outside |
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solutions to urban sprawl |
- greenbelt - smart growth (people don't need cars, everything is there) |
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Demography |
the study of causes and consequences of population growth |
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Replacement fertility rate |
the average children per women to maintain population |
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Net migration |
the difference between immigration and emigration |
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Natural growth rate |
the difference between the crude death rate and the crude death rate |
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Georg Simmel |
cities created conditions that predisposed individuals to repress their emotions and focus on formal interactions with others |
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Human ecology approach |
a city as an organism |
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Gentrification |
more affluent people move into low income families |
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Human exceptionalism paradigm |
humans are not distinct from other living organisms |
