Exam 2

Question 0

What is technological determinism?

Answer 0

It promotes use of online shopping as a away to “lower your prices and save you time” and the belief that more technology will make us more efficient and solve problems like poverty

Question 1

What is “double standard”?

Answer 1

We have guest worker programs for immigrants and we want cheap workers but yet we don’t want to raise the pay for them also they don’t have equal rights as us because they don’t have the same benefits that we do when it comes to work

Question 2

Define age transition.

Answer 2

It’s the shift in population from predominately young, mostly male to older, and mostly female and so there will be a big population of elders

Question 3

What is social status?

Answer 3

Position or standing in society and it also relates to how much money you make and your occupation ex: a heart surgeon is seen as a good person and a blue collared worker is seen as their status is lower

Question 4

What are social roles?

Answer 4

They are obligations that you take on based on certain social role you have in society ex:can’t get a job without education/degree and another example is that you have to be 18 to vote

Question 5

What is social mobility?

Answer 5

It is determined by your age ex:when you are at a age where you can work

Question 6

What is the age stratification theory?

Answer 6

A theory that states that age is the basis of social differentiation and based on the age bracket your in that’s how resources will be allocated to you and strait cation refers to the unequal distribution of resources to different age groups

Question 7

What is a cohort?

Answer 7

A group of people born during the same time period – that establishes who you are

Question 8

What are cohort flows?

Answer 8

Cohorts of people are impacted by historical events and trends ex:baby boomers who were born after World War Two we are the generation that will now be paying and taking care of the elders because they are getting older

Question 9

What is the sex ratio?

Answer 9

The number of men of women times 100 and it declines with increasing age because of a decline of men and women live for a longer time than men

Question 10

What is a population pyramid?

Answer 10

Is the graph that shows the distribution of males and females in various cohorts and are based on high fertility and high mortality outcomes

Question 11

Stable population models

Answer 11

Stable populations typically have constant growth and decline

Question 12

What is urbanization?

Answer 12

The process where the proportion of the population living in urban spaces increased ex:when more people are living in the urban area and rural population starts to decline

Question 13

What are metropolitan/non metropolitan areas?

Answer 13

It refers to the “urban/rural” divide ex:milwaukee is but not Waukesha

Question 14

What is the CBSA’s?

Answer 14

It’s called the core based statistical area that social scientists use to understand population ex:segregation - It consist of 1.urbanized area of least 500,000 people and 2. Counties added if 25% of workforce resides or works in central country

Question 15

What is the built environment?

Answer 15

The physical transformation of the physical and natural environment that occurs as humans create social infrastructure ex:we cut forest and natural things and build our houses and cables that connect our internet and this changes how people interact with people

Question 16

What is urban crowding?

Answer 16

Results as people are packed into small spaces that lack adequate resources ex:if water runs out then drinking water would turn brown

Question 17

What is density?

Answer 17

The ratio of people to physical space

Question 18

What is urbanism?

Answer 18

The crowding of people in cities creates negative behavior patterns for residents ex: unsafe living conditions, the lack of education, criminality

Question 19

What is urban agglomeration?

Answer 19

The population of at least one million people in a contiguous urban space ex: China has 165 cities with over a million people

Question 20

What is a mega city?

Answer 20

Urban agglomerations of 10 million or more people

Question 21

What is a slum?

Answer 21

Defined as places that lack one or more of these items: access to potable water, access to piped sewage, housing of adequate space, housing of adequate durability, and security of tenure (are you going to be kicked out?)

Question 22

What is suburbanize?

Answer 22

Growth in outlying rings of a city — inner city became slums and suburbs are in the outer city - because of the jobs and land

Question 23

What are edge cities?

Answer 23

Borders between suburbs and central city that take on functions of older central city - ex: west allis, mequon –> the half way point - this is where resources are being pulled to and so they don’t go to the city (urban) because they get what they need there

Question 24

What are exurbs?

Answer 24

Suburbs of the suburbs, moving further away from central city - and they are still able to be close to their jobs because things are being moved to the suburbs

Question 25

What is gentrification?

Answer 25

When more affluent population decided to move back into city, buying up properties and living in desirable areas of the central city – they use the land in a slum and demolish houses in the middle of the city and the cost of living goes up and pushes the low income to move out and so the low income you get pushed down

Question 26

What is “behavioral sink”?

Answer 26

With the experiment conducted on rats Calhoun concluded that even in rats they immediately their behaviors are altered with their environment - ex:they found that the rats that were put in the area where there is not a lot of sources than they will take on the cocaine water because they don’t have anything else

Question 27

What is e-waste?

Answer 27

It is electronic waste

Question 28

What is the relationship between malnutrition and obesity? How is this connected to cardiovascular disease?

Answer 28

Children or people who are malnutritioned will lead to obesity because they are not able to afford healthy foods. The junk foods and sugary foods and drinks are usually cheaper to get and so they will not be able to receive healthier foods. This is connected to cardiovascular disease because these are diseases related to it because these diseases are related to the heart such as strokes and heart disease. That would lead to these people getting heart diseases because their heart would wear out.

Question 29

What are remittances?

Answer 29

When husbands were in the United States they would send money back to their family to help them take care of their family and the land.

Question 30

How would you use a neo-Marxist theory to explain the jobs created from an Amazon based consumer economy?

Answer 30

The government has spent money to invest in Amazon to be able to build warehouses to be able to bring jobs. But it negatively impacts the smaller businesses because they are not able to sell their books as low as Amazon and so these people may lose their jobs/business that can bring them into poverty.

Question 31

What is the difference between urbanization and urbanism?

Answer 31

Urbanization is the process of the population living in urban spaces increases and urbanism is the crowding of people in cities create negative behavior patterns for residents

Question 32

What happens to a population as a result of urban crowding?

Answer 32

The effects of this is that because there are so many people crowding into small spaces then they will lack adequate resources like food or water or transportation or money or jobs

Question 33

How do cohort flows impact one another? Provide a historical example.

Answer 33

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Question 34

What does a sex ratio graph look like over the lifespan of a population?

Answer 34

The sex ratio graph declines over time with increasing age because of a decline of men and women will live for a long re time because the sex ratio is men over women times 100

Question 35

Explain the age stratification theory and how it is related to social mobility.

Answer 35

This is a theory that states that based on the age bracket your in than that’s how resources will be allocated to you - this talks about age and resources that they are related and is related to social mobility is determined by your age and so for example when you are at a certain age where you can work

Question 36

What is the relationship between job growth and edge cities? How is this related to poverty in urban areas?

Answer 36

The relationship between job growth and edge cities is that resources are being pulled here. This is related to urban areas because the people living in these edge cities are building what they want there and so these resources are farther away from the people in urban areas. This lead them to not be able to get to these resources due to distance and transportation to these jobs in these areas because the city bus does not go out that far.