Lec 1 - Jan 11

Question 1

Theme 1: What is the city as _______? Can this question even be answered?

Answer 1

Theme 1: _______ as an object of study? Can this question even be answered?

Question 2

Theme 2: How do cities _______ on their inhabitants? How do they structure their communities?

Answer 2

Theme 2: ______ act back _________? How do they structure their communities?

Question 3

An example of cities “acting back” on inhabitants

Answer 3

Indus Valley first private bathrooms changed culture / ideas / subjectivity

Question 4

In David Henry’s opinion, what are cities all about?

Answer 4

surplus

Question 5

Theme 4: How are ___________ cities different? Is this a useful distinction?

Answer 5

Theme 4: ________ preindustrial cities ____? Is this a useful distinction?

Question 6

Theme 5: ________________ archaeologists __________ cities? (for example, Pompei)

Answer 6

Theme 5: How are ___________ uniquely positioned to understand cities? (for example, Pompei).

Question 7

Theme 6: Why does it matter to talk about _________ cities?

Answer 7

Theme 6: _________________ ancient ________?

Question 8

Polis …

Answer 8

Classic Greek city (from where politics, police, metropolis comes from)

Question 9

Polities …

Answer 9

structured governance OR an organized society

Question 10

Who thought the fall of Rome was “fine” and associated it all with sin & decadence?

Answer 10

Saint Augustine

Question 11

Who said states precede the creation of cities?

Answer 11

Ibn Khaldun

Question 12

The two main figures behind the idea of cultural evolution

Answer 12

Edward B. Tylor & Lewis H. Morgan

Question 13

1. Asiatic MoP 2. ______

Answer 13

1. ________ 2. Ancient MoP

Question 14

2. Ancient MoP 3. _____

Answer 14

2. _________ 3. Feudal MoP

Question 15

3. Feudal MoP 4. ______

Answer 15

3. _____ 4. Capitalist MoP

Question 16

What came before Asiatic MoP? (3 terms)

Answer 16

1. primitive communism 2. tributary MoP 3. kinship MoP

Question 17

Ancient MoP (3 points)

Answer 17

1. slave labor enriches estates 2. Aristocratic control of cities 3. heaviest stratification

Question 18

Feudal MoP (1 point)

Answer 18

1. contracts between serfs & lords

Question 19

What conflict during the Feudal MoP led to global capitalism?

Answer 19

Conflict between cities & lords led to global capitalism (urbanization & capitalization of the countryside).

Question 20

Capitalist MoP (3 points)

Answer 20

1. migrating labor 2. industrialization of countryside 3. commodities

Question 21

What did Emile Durkheim think happens to kinship in the city life?

Answer 21

kinship gets replaced by specialist corporations (according to E.D.)

Question 22

ANOMIE (Durkheim)

Answer 22

lawlessness and lack of solidarity typical of modern cities

Question 23

cities are somewhere between market and fortress (according to)

Answer 23

What did Max Weber say cities were like …

Question 24

What did who say is the main “explicit manifestation” of cities?

Answer 24

blase (disregard for strangers) is the city’s what? – Georg Simmel

Question 25

Ezra Park & who?

Answer 25

Ernest Burgess

Question 26

the _____________ zonation model

Answer 26

the concentric __________ model

Question 27

Ezra Park & Ernest Burgess were from what school?

Answer 27

Chicago School

Question 28

Ezra Park’s student, ______________, defined the city as having what?

Answer 28

Lewis Wirth defined a city as hosting many heterogeneous individuals (and the downside is alienation)

Question 29

3 main determinants of urbanity …. 1. 2. 3. heterogeneity

Answer 29

1. number 2. density 3. _________ ?

Question 30

the distinction between urban and rural is vague.

Answer 30

No. It is rigid.

Question 31

What is necessary or develops along with cities?

Answer 31

the state

Question 32

cities are the apex of stage-based

Answer 32

social evolution