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Among the first sociologists in the United States were urban scholars who studied problems in the city of Chicago.

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China's antinatalist policy has been in effect since 1962.

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According to the text, the population explosion began with the end of the feudal period in Europe and beginning of industrialization in developing countries and spread around the globe.

Although women are having fewer children than ever before in country X, the population is expected to continue growing for another 20 years. How is this possible?

A primary criticism of demographic transition theory is that:

Simmel, Wirth, and Fischer all provide explanations of city life. Describe the explanation of the three that you feel is most accurate. Why do you feel that this particular explanation is better than the other two? Support your answer with real-world examples.

Big City, USA, has a population of 1.3 million people. The citizens of Big City rely on laws for order, maintain formal relationships, and base their lives on their incomes. The inhabitants of Big City do not know how to grow food, share common values, or maintain strong family ties. According to Tonnies, Big City is a(n) :

The world's population doubles every 102 years.

Walnut Grove, a small town in Kansas in 1880, featured one church/school, one town doctor, and one store. The 50 residents all knew one another and frequently worked together. This community is characterized by Gesellschaft.

How would Louis Wirth explain city dwellers?

List and explain five factors that can affect population size.

Industrialization is the transformation from traditional, mostly agrarian communities to contemporary, bureaucratized states.

Explain Malthus's theory of population and detail the critiques. How have neo-Malthusians addressed those critiques? Do you personally believe in neo-Malthusian theory? If so, why? If not, what evidence would you need to support neo-Malthusian theory?

Because of their widespread availability, fewer than 1 million women around the world lack access to contraceptives.

Ethnic enclaves are only found in African American inner-city neighborhoods.

Mechanical solidarity was Durkheim's term for the glue that held a society together through shared beliefs, values, and traditions.

In city Y, 100 babies were born and 75 people died this year. The natural increase rate in city Y is:

City Z used to have a bustling downtown area. However, when the major corporation left town, the downtown area became rundown and was known as the "bad" part of town. Recently, young professionals have been buying old, rundown downtown homes and restoring the grandeur of the old properties. City Z is currently:

Between 1940 and 2000, the number of urban areas in the United States decreased.

The land and resources of a country affect population size.