SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Urban Sociology, Social Disorganization Theory, Demographic Transition
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Environmental-opportunity theory suggests that we actively choose where we want to live based upon preferred lifestyle. After this slide show, students will be able to: Explain the malthusian and marxist perspectives on population growth. Identify the key features of industrial, corporate, and postmodern cities. Hayford argues that our most salient social problems happen to be city problems. Cities are defined as relatively large, densely population, permanent settlements in which most residents do not produce their own food. Cities are about 5-6 thousand years old (3,000-4,000 bce) in mesopotamia and egypt. Even at their height, ancient and medieval cities were incapable of supporting urban populations larger than 5-10% of society. The physical layout of cities had not changed significantly until the 18 th century. These changes are the result of the demographic transition. The demographic transition is the change from high to low birth and death rates that characterized modernization, industrialization and urbanization.
