China Quiz

Movement of people from rural areas (countryside) to cities

• Globalization

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Settlement

living on less than $1 a day

• Direct Poverty

• Relative Poverty

• Poverty

• Absolute poverty

areas where it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food

• Food Deserts

• Urban areas

• Rural Areas

• Farm areas

a process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area

• Globalization

• Gentrification

• Urbanization

• Urban Revitalization

social divisions that maintain hierarchies and ranks, reinforcing inequalities of economic, cultural, and political power

• Social categories

• Class Scale

• hierarchical

• Class Systems

lack of government investment, services, jobs; low salaries, natural disasters, overpopulation, poverty

• Resources poverty

• Poverty

• Rural push factors

• Urban pull factors

government invests more, better housing, more jobs/higher salaries, better standard of living, more services, electricity, water, and food

• Urban poverty

• Rural push factors

• Urban pull factors

• Rural poverty

how the poor are compared to others in the country

• Rural poverty

• Urban poverty

• Absolute poverty

• Relative poverty

A person's position in society as determined by income, wealth, occupation, education, place of residence, and other factors

• Urban economic status

• Economic/poverty status

• Socio-economic status

• Rural economic status

lower socio-economic settlements in urban areas

• Favelas

• Squatter settlements

• Slums

• Shantytowns