Deck 2: The Origins of Urban Life and Urban Sociology

Question 1

What does the urban implosion refer to?

A) the shift of population from rural to urban places during the Medieval Era
B) the shift of population from rural to urban places during the Industrial Revolution
C) the shift of population from rural to urban places after World War II
D) the shift of population from urban to rural places in the 1980s

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Weber, the medieval urban community consisted of what?

A) a fusion of the fortress and the marketplace where trade and commercial relations predominated
B) a legal court of its own that had the authority to settle local disputes
C) a partial political autonomy that allowed residents to elect authorities who could administer daily affairs
D) Answers A and C
E) All of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

For Tonnies, ______ refers to social life of small towns with individual families that have long histories, personal interaction, and interdependent job, while _____ refers to the loss of a shared sense of belonging to a meaningful community in urban life of the industrial period

A) Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft
B) Gesellschaft, Gemeinschaft
C) Mechanical solidarity, organic solidarity
D) Organic solidarity, mechanical solidarity

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following terms is used to describe the study of the ways of life of urban communities, dealing with culture, meanings, symbols, and patterns of daily life?

A) Urbanization
B) Urbanism
C) Blasé attitude
D) Sectoral Perspective

Question 5

This term is used by Simmel to describe how individuals filter out the impinging distractions as they move through life in the city.

A) Nuanced indifference
B) Cold calculation
C) Blasé attitude
D) Nonchalance

Question 6

Which of the following is McKenzie's model for examining urban social life through the multicentered metropolitan region?

A) Concentric zone model
B) Sector theory
C) Urban ecology
D) Social area analysis

Question 7

Which urban sociologist urged his students to "get the seat of their parents dirty"?

A) Georg Simmel
B) Emile Durkheim
C) Robert Park
D) Ernest Burgess

Question 8

Which of the following classics of urban sociology emanated from the Chicago School?

A) The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man (1923)
B) The Gold Coast and the Slum (1929)
C) Hotel Life (1936)
D) Answers A and B
E) All of the above

Question 9

Durkheim was convinced that the new industrial economy presented an improvement over the limited opportunities of feudal society.

Question 10

Which of the following are the factors that Wirth felt could help predict characteristics of urban social life in any city?

A) Population size, density, and heterogeneity
B) Food supply, political disposition, and water treatment
C) Technological innovation and environmental sustainability
D) Answers A and B
E) Answers A and C

Question 11

Urban life of the 19^th century is often contrasted with feudal life. Describe some of the ways in which social life and settlement space differed in these two eras.

Question 12

Many ancient cities were the locus of agriculture, trade, and manufacturing, and were also built using shared symbols and religious codes. Cite and describe two or three examples of religious symbolism built into the spaces of ancient cities.

Question 13

What is the urban implosion? How was the urban implosion precipitated by the industrial revolution?

Question 14

Robert Park, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber all contributed to the inquiry into urban social life and the origins of urban sociology. What were some of the questions about social life that each scholar sought to answer?

Question 15

Discuss the Chicago School of urban sociology. Who were the sociologists that contributed to this school? What did they study, and what were their major contributions to understanding of urban social life?

Question 16

Compare and contrast any two of the following models of urban development discussed in this chapter: human ecology, urban ecology, the concentric zone model, social area analysis, and factorial ecology.