SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Collective Responsibility, System On A Chip, Juscelino Kubitschek
23 Jan 2013
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Heterogeneous: not e1 same specialized occupationally, freq ethnic mixes. Urbanization: % of pop that lives in cities (threshold varies, process urbanization is taking place (urban % increasing) Compared to other cities, 1 is much larger (which other cities, demographers not all agree) Concentration of econ/poli activity so strong, other small cities no chance catching up. H: spreading all talent, money give e1 more of a chance. Opposite of primate city/primate urban distrib = rank-size distrib. Formal sector: work w/contracts, insured, pension scheme, taxed, protected sector . Informal: none of the benefits of formal sector. Fulfill s/imp functions: living arrangement in pop that provides surplus (agricul) Agricul surplus that finances non-agricul activities (poli offices, admin) Once have agricul in organised fashion inequalities. Have cities b/c func for empires as fortifications of outer edges. Market func: if have agricul, have need for markets. Symbolic func: poli elites live in cities (have offices, temples, cathedrals) Poli rep of entire pop demands monumental places.
