Diverse Places Keywords

Question 1

Demographic

Answer 1

Data about population characteristics e.g. age, gender, ethnicity

Question 2

Place

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Population structure

Answer 3

the make-up of a population in terms of age, gender, life expectancy and ethnicity (family size, marital status)

Question 4

Population density

Answer 4

Number of people per unit area

Question 5

Population distribution

Answer 5

The way people are located over an area (looked at in many ways e.g. ethnicity or age)

Question 6

Rural-urban continuum

Answer 6

Gradual shift from urban to rural

Question 7

Natural increase

Answer 7

Birth rates - death rates

Question 8

Ethnic fertility

Answer 8

when ethnic minorities tend to have higher birth rates

Question 9

Net migration

Answer 9

the balance between outmigration and in-migration in the population of a country or region

Question 10

Homogeneity

Answer 10

Population is all the same

Question 11

Heterogeneity

Answer 11

Population is diverse

Question 12

Real and imagined perception

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ethnicity

Answer 13

The cultural heritage of a group of people. The most obvious traits are ancestral background, language, religion and forms of dress.

Question 14

Lived experience

Answer 14

how a person feels about the place and why/how you interact with it. Includes attachment, perception and memories

Question 15

White flight

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Identity

Answer 16

How you view yourself and how others view you

Individual or group identity

Question 17

Rural idyll

Answer 17

Quiet, pretty area with a community feel, but there are actually many drawbacks

Question 18

Threshold population

Answer 18

minimum number of people needed to sustain a service or business

Question 19

Deregulation

Answer 19

when it becomes uneconomical to run services and exclusion affects the poor and elderly

Question 20

Management

Answer 20

Planning + implementing actions that facilitate transition from one situation to another

Question 21

Assimilation

Answer 21

Ability to integrate into the host country and adapt to the culture and values

Question 22

Dumbbell market

Answer 22

similar to gentrification, rich people revitalise areas by doing things up (renovating) leading to job losses and young people moving away

Question 23

Social exclusion

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Dissimilarity

Answer 24

differences between groups and how many of other groups are around them

Question 25

Isolation

Answer 25

how many people would have to move in order to get even racial distribution

Question 26

Clustering

Answer 26

people together around a certain point and whether minority areas join together

Question 27

Centralisation

Answer 27

around the CBD/other central places

Question 28

Concentration

Answer 28

relative physical space and amount of a certain ethnicity in one place (how densely populated, can be measured)

Question 29

Filtering

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Exclusion

Answer 30

majority forcing minority out of areas/communities, keeps people from integrating/participating in society

Question 31

Ghetto

Answer 31

parts of a city occupied by a minority group (with poor quality housing and high concentration)