A. reliance on animal power as a source of energy
B. the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector
C. the ease of migration to the city
D. all of the above
Population and the Environment
In which type of city does religion become fragmented and there is greater openness to new religious faiths ?
A. preindustrial city
B. industrial city
C. postindustrial city
D. edge cities
Robert Park and Ernest Burgess are associated with…………….?
A. the functionalist perspective
B. the conflict perspective
C. the linear-development model
D. Urban ecology
Which group of sociologists note that developers’ bankers and other powerful real estate interests view housing as an investment and are primarily concerned with maximizing profit not with solving social problems?
A. urban ecologists
B. new urban sociologist
C. functionalists
D. human ecologists
The crude birth rate…………..?
A. is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44?
B. Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could?
C. is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
D. enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population
The …. is the increase or decrease that results from immigration or emigration per 1000 member of the population in a given year ?
A. emigration rate
B. growth rate
C. immigration rate
D. net migration rate
Which of the following is an accurate statement about a population pyramid ?
A. A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population
B. A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers.
C. A population pyramid is of interest solely to academics.
D. A population pyramid requires complex statistical calculation to understand the interrelationship between age and sex in a given population.
According to Marx………….?
A. an economic crisis in the capitalist system would force factory owners into the ranks of the unemployed
B. an excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food.
C. the problems associated with population growth are a function of the scarcity of wealth
D. self-control would restrain population growth.
Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that…………..?
A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques
Which of the following are NOT factors involved in whether or not people define a situation as crowded ?
A. duration and predictability
B. frame of mind and environmental setting
C. the sex and race of individuals present
D. intensification of people’s definition of the situation