Sociology 1301 Quiz 15

In the early 1900s, what percentage of Americans lived in cities?

40 percent

Skyler is interested i studying how many people live in New Mexico, what race they are, and where the state is most densely populated. What kind of study research would Skyler do?

Demography

In the past, the vast majority of people lived in rural areas and small towns where it was truly shocking to encounter a genuine stranger, but today most of us live in cities where we are constantly surrounded by total strangers. This leads directly to:

Social atomization

Azka wants to study human populations and their impact on the natural world. This would be called:

social ecology

The United States has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world.

False

There is no link between poverty and access to adequate water supplies.

False

According to Georg Simmel, how do city dwellers relate to one another?

In objective and instrumental terms

How has Earth's population changed in the last fifty years?

It has more than trippled

If the neo-Malthusians are correct, what dramatic changes would you expect to occur in this map at some point in the future?

Life expectancy would decline almost everywhere

Adam is worried that at some point in the future,people would far outnumber the available land food sources. Which theory agrees with Adam?

Malthus theorem

Which of the following is a basic demographic variable?

Migration

Anti-Malthusians believe that Thomas Malthus couldn't have envisioned the many modern developments that impact population demographics. What is that the anti-Malthusians worry about?

Populations will begin to drop

Which of the following would most worry Thomas Malthus?

The U.S. government refusing to fund international agencies that provide family planning services

If the anti-Malthusians are correct, what will this graph look like over the next several hundred years?

The population will eventually level off to a more or less straight line

The birth rate in Italy is much lower than it was in the past, with the average woman now expected to bear about 1.3 children, far fewer children than are needed to replace two parents. What might this lead to?

a demographic freefall

If Georg Simmel is correct, in which type of community would you be LEAST likely to have a friendly friendship with your neighbors?

a large city

The study of the size, growth, and distribution of human populations is called:

demography

What is causing the increase in air pollution in China and India?

economic growth and prosperity

The dramatic decline in the population of Vietnam due to refugees leaving the country during the Vietnam War is an example of:

emigration

Given that fertility rates in the United States have dropped below the level needed to maintain the population level, why is the population here growing?

immigration

The number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people is referred to as the:

mortality rate

How is urban density measured?

number of people per square mile

The Industrial Revolution led many people to move from ______ areas

rural to urban

A sociologist who examines how cities are organized or the migration of human populations is studying:

social ecology