SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15-16: Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Lag, Social Dilemma
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Urbanization: demography is the study of the size of, composition of, distribution of, and changes in human population. Anti-malthusians believe that family planning (contraception or any other method of controlling family size and birth of children) and other changes will eventually cause population shrinkage. The wide-scale development of cities was made possible by the significant social, economic, and political changes accompanying the industrial revolution. 83 percent of americans now live in urban areas (about 6 percent lived in urban areas in the early 1800s): a metropolis is an urban area with a large population, usually 500,000 to 1,000,000 people. A megalopolis (or megacity) is a group of densely populated metropolises that grow dependent on each other and eventually combine to form a huge urban complex. Suburbanization is the shift of large segments of population away from the urban core and toward the edge of cities.
