Test 1

Question 1

Understand the issues with defining “the city” and “urban”

Answer 1

“Ubran” relative term. Abstract. Cities look different geographically and chronologically.

Question 2

Know what all “the city” includes

Answer 2

City proper, expanding circle that radiates out from city

Question 3

Understand the processes that create urban areas

Answer 3

Enacted organizations

Question 4

Why are sociologists interested in studying the city?

Answer 4

Social processes emerge.

Question 5

What is “urban sociology” ultimately concerned with?

Answer 5

How processes, systems, institutional arrangements shape people

Question 6

Why is the factor of space important?

Answer 6

How we live our day to day lives

Question 7

What is the relationship of the city to culture?

Answer 7

Cities produce their own culture style, taste and attitude

Question 8

Know Lynch’s Five Physical Elements of Urban Space

Answer 8

Paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks

Question 9

Which term describes the degree to which people can take in a city conceptually?

Answer 9

imagability

Question 10

Understand Lofland’s theory of privatized space: customers, patrons, and residents

Answer 10

safe space, customer becomes resident, home away from home.

Question 11

Define cityphobes and cityphiles

Answer 11

Cityphobes- despise city. Cityphiles- love city

Question 12

Understand how each generation criticizes cities

Answer 12

negative attitudes illegals, street gangs, diseases.

Question 13

Understand the unity of city culture and identity

Answer 13

city reputations, sports teams, times of crisis. Common identity.

Question 14

Understand human engineering and commercial interests utilizing urban space

Answer 14

Produce a kind of experience (french quarter, Disney)

Question 15

Know why cities are ideal for political expression

Answer 15

Large number of like minded people, people take control of public space

Question 16

Know the factors that came before the earliest cities

Answer 16

Permanent human settlement, tech advancement, development of agriculture.

Question 17

What is the world’s oldest known city?

Answer 17

Tell Brak

Question 18

Know the social developments associated with the rise of the earliest cities

Answer 18

Social organization, transformation of culture + experience, growth of political + economic power.

Question 19

Which factor best explains the emergence of the earliest cities?

Answer 19

Agriculture theory- work projects.

Question 20

What changes in social organization occurred in the earliest cities?

Answer 20

Highly specialized divison of labor

Question 21

What factors contributed to the emergence of social stratification?

Answer 21

Concentrated population, need of specialist, wealth, hierarchy of unequal status groups.

Question 22

The transformation of culture in the early cities included which development?

Answer 22

Trade routes

Question 23

What effect did the emerging urban culture tend to have on ancient religion?

Answer 23

Stratified burial

Question 24

Understand the hinterland

Answer 24

An area with non urban population that is nevertheless subject to the rule of the neighboring city.

Question 25

Know the factors that led to the rise of the state in the ancient world

Answer 25

Agriculture, work, food

Question 26

What was the oldest city of China?

Answer 26

Longshan

Question 27

The first “true cities” in the Americas were built by who?

Answer 27

The maya

Question 28

Why have some argued that the early cities of Mesoamerica were not ‘true cities’?

Answer 28

Wide populations spread out + ceremonial religious in nature.

Question 29

According to Childe, what features marked the ancient period of urbanization?

Answer 29

Growth of tech, long distance trade= cultural diffusion

Question 30

What were major obstacles in the urbanization of Europe?

Answer 30

Black plague