SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Disorder, Capital Accumulation, Infant Mortality
22 Apr 2016
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Environmental-opportunity theory suggests that people actively choose where they want to live based upon preferred lifestyle. Demographers measure population characteristics and focus on economic, social, cultural and biological interactions. Globalization theorists examine how residency choices are based on international arrangements. Hayford argues that our most salient social problems are city problems. These include: crime, racial conflict, traffic, affordable housing. She notes that canadian cities face significant revenue challenges when dealing with these problems. Explain the malthusian and marxist perspectives on population growth. Identify the key features of industrial corporate and postmodern cities. Cities are defined as relatively large, densely populated, permanent settlements in which most residents do not produce their own food. Cities are about 5-6 thousand years old (3000 4000 bce) in mesopatamia and egypt. Even at their height, ancient and medieval cities were incapable of supporting urban populations larger than 5- The physical layout of cities had not changed significantly until the 18th century.
