Population and Urbanization Flashcards
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Structural Functionalism
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- Durkheim: urban = anomie
- different social norms
- people not as close and familiar (more anonymous)
- absence of social solidarity in cities
- suburban: held together by religion and familiarity
- urban: unclear of moral codes
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Conflict Theory
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- role of class relations and division between working and capitalist classes
- Marx: need excess population
- Malthus: pessimistic about future, not enough food/resources for growing population
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Feminist Theory
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- gender based inequalities
- gentrification (improve, build up)
- looks at why women with kids move to gentrified communities
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Symbolic Interactionism
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- subjective understandings and social meanings attached to rural, suburban and urban environments
- people are just like the houses, they’re all “the same” (all resemble each other)
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Perspectives on population and urbanization:
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1) Environmental Opportunity Theory
2) Demography
3) Economic Lens
6
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The City
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- cities: large/dense population networks
- emerged with food surpluses
- access to food surpluses allow them to grow
- people now sedentary and could settle and grow after growing away from hunter gathering societies
7
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Industrial City
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- factors that facilitated this growth of the industrial city
- businesses able to grow because we see convention and cooperation of shared stock companies
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Urbanization
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- urban primacy: one city becomes more dominant than other cities
- over-urbanization: population growth outpaces provision of services and economic development
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Corporate City and Corporate Suburb
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- city is about corporate growth
- corporate suburb: built by large developing companies
- attract people because of relatively lower cost compared to other housing
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Postmodern City
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- composed of: edge cities, multi-ethnic cities and dual cities
- characterized by:
- counter-urbanization
- re-urbanization
- diversity
- privatized spaces
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Edge City
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- outside of suburbs but within commuting distance of city
- hybrid of city and suburbs
12
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The Multiethnic City
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- greater diversity
- the dual city: polarization
