5.1.2 Population Studies Part 3

Question 1

What are suburbs?

Answer 1

residential satellite communities located in the peripheral regions of major urban centers that are often connected to the cities in some fashion

Question 2

What is white flight?

Answer 2

historical example of suburbanization that involves the migration of whites from cities to more racially homogeneous suburbs

Question 3

What is urban sprawl?

Answer 3

migration of people from urban areas to otherwise remote areas

Question 4

What is urban blight?

Answer 4

occurs when less functioning areas of large cities degrade as a result of urban decline

Question 5

What is gentrification?

Answer 5

renovation of urban areas in a process of urban renewal

Question 6

What are the two theories of population change?

Answer 6

demographic transition
malthusianism

Question 7

What is demographic transition?

Answer 7

transition from overall higher to overall lower birth and death rates as a result of a country’s development from a pre-industrial to industrial framework

Question 8

What is Malthusianism?

Answer 8

states that the possible rate of population increase exceeds the possible rate of resource increase

Question 9

What is the Malthusianism catastrophe?

Answer 9

occurs when the means of sustenance are not enough to support the population resulting in population reduction through actual or predicted famine

Question 10

What is neo-malthusianism?

Answer 10

movement based on the malthusianism principles that advocates for population control in order to reduce the negative effects of population strain

Question 11

What is demography?

Answer 11

study of human population dynamics including size, structure, and distribution of a population and changes in the population over time due to birth, death, and migration

Question 12

What is the definition of minority?

Answer 12

demographic groups that receive differential treatment through processes of prejudice and discrimination due to their shared characteristics

Question 13

What are dominant groups?

Answer 13

those with the social power to assign these labels

Question 14

What is the definition of age cohorts?

Answer 14

statistical cohorts in which a group of subjects share the characteristic of age

Question 15

What is the definition of generational cohorts?

Answer 15

groups of people born in the same period

Question 16

What is population aging?

Answer 16

occurs when there is a disproportionate amount of older people in a population

Question 17

What is the definition of ageism?

Answer 17

discrimination against a person based on age

Question 18

What is the definition of sex?

Answer 18

biological characteristic that is assigned at birth and permanent in most cases

Question 19

What is the definition of gender?

Answer 19

social characteristic that is based on behavioral role expectations

Question 20

What is the nature effect on gender?

Answer 20

biological measures can have behavioral effects such as hormones

Question 21

What the nurture effect on gender?

Answer 21

social surroundings have a profound effect on the development of our gender identities

Question 22

What are gender roles?

Answer 22

describes the social and behavioral expectations for men and women