Diverse Places Keywords Flashcards
Demographic
Data about population characteristics e.g. age, gender, ethnicity
Place
Location + meaning (personal experiences, media, what’s heard from others etc.)
Meaning we ascribe to a place is subjective, but could also be a general consensus with shared meanings
Population structure
the make-up of a population in terms of age, gender, life expectancy and ethnicity (family size, marital status)
Population density
Number of people per unit area
Population distribution
The way people are located over an area (looked at in many ways e.g. ethnicity or age)
Rural-urban continuum
Gradual shift from urban to rural
Natural increase
Birth rates - death rates
Ethnic fertility
when ethnic minorities tend to have higher birth rates
Net migration
the balance between outmigration and in-migration in the population of a country or region
Homogeneity
Population is all the same
Heterogeneity
Population is diverse
Real and imagined perception
Real - everything is subjective
Imagined - what you assume/think of a place you have never been to and how close it may be to reality
Ethnicity
The cultural heritage of a group of people. The most obvious traits are ancestral background, language, religion and forms of dress.
Lived experience
how a person feels about the place and why/how you interact with it. Includes attachment, perception and memories
White flight
white people decide to move away from the city. White middle class often thinks other racial groups don’t share same values, so treat them as outsiders and exclude them
Identity
How you view yourself and how others view you
Individual or group identity
Rural idyll
Quiet, pretty area with a community feel, but there are actually many drawbacks
Threshold population
minimum number of people needed to sustain a service or business
Deregulation
when it becomes uneconomical to run services and exclusion affects the poor and elderly
Management
Planning + implementing actions that facilitate transition from one situation to another
Assimilation
Ability to integrate into the host country and adapt to the culture and values
Dumbbell market
similar to gentrification, rich people revitalise areas by doing things up (renovating) leading to job losses and young people moving away
Social exclusion
not allowing certain groups to do things like the rest of society can e.g. difficulty to access housing, barred access to services, don’t have similar rights
Dissimilarity
differences between groups and how many of other groups are around them
Isolation
how many people would have to move in order to get even racial distribution
Clustering
people together around a certain point and whether minority areas join together
Centralisation
around the CBD/other central places
Concentration
relative physical space and amount of a certain ethnicity in one place (how densely populated, can be measured)
Filtering
forcing minorities into a certain area due to economic limitations, groups moving from one place to another but it depends on who is able to
Exclusion
majority forcing minority out of areas/communities, keeps people from integrating/participating in society
Ghetto
parts of a city occupied by a minority group (with poor quality housing and high concentration)
