Which type of group often forms in the workplace among those who share special understandings about their occupation?
Correct answer B. Primary
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What purpose does a reference group serve?
Correct answer D. Both A and B
Traditional urbanisation concentrates activity around the downtown area. When residential areas then shift outward, what is this called?
Correct answer C. Suburbanisation
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What does urbanism study?
Correct answer A. Cities
In larger groups, what does each member experience?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Louis Wirth argued that a large, permanent settlement produces distinctive patterns of behaviour. What did he call them?
Correct answer D. Urbanism
A US president need not be a good typist, and a surgeon need not be able to fill a cavity. Which characteristic of bureaucracy explains this?
Correct answer D. Division of labour
What did Herbert Gans call urban residents who prefer to live in their own tight-knit communities?
Correct answer D. Ethnic villagers
What was the most dramatic US population trend of the twentieth century?
Correct answer C. Suburbanisation
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What share of employment in non-urban US counties is accounted for by agriculture?
Correct answer D. 9 per cent
What term describes the cultural practices and outlooks that distinguish a community from others?
Correct answer B. Ethnicity
Human and animal societies share all but one of these characteristics. Which one is uniquely human?
Correct answer A. Shared beliefs and collective destiny
Tönnies divided social structure into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Which type was marked by tight, cohesive social bonds?
Correct answer A. Gemeinschaft
What is the collective value of social networks and the norms of reciprocity arising from them called?
Correct answer C. Social capital
Division of labour, social classes, formal government institutions and systems of trade are characteristic of which type of community?
Correct answer A. Urban Community
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What is a group of people in the same or related occupations usually called?
Correct answer B. Professional community
When agriculture can no longer absorb a growing population and people concentrate in towns and cities, what is the process called?
Correct answer A. Urbanisation
New urbanism, a movement begun in the 1980s, aimed to reduce dependency on what?
Correct answer C. Vehicular transportation
The world urbanisation rate was 49% in 2005. By what year is it expected to reach 60%?
Correct answer C. 2030
What did Herbert Gans call residents who stay in the city for its cultural and intellectual benefits?
Correct answer C. Cosmopolites