Cities and Urban Life - Ch. 5

Which scholar advanced the idea that society is the product of conflict between capitalists and laborers?

• Emile Durkheim
• Karl Marx
• Louis Wirth
• Herbert Gans

Ferdinand Tonnies believed villages to be living organisms of unity, purpose, and common good.

• True
• False

Emile Durkheim believed cities fostered independence and an immoral foundation where contracts cannot be made.

• True
• False

George Simmel warned apathy or antagonism would be the result of rationalism in the system of urban impersonal exchange.

• True
• False

Max Weber suggested that history may not be progressive, and the ideal urban form may be of a time past. 

• True
• False

Robert Park's human ecological model consisted of 3 components. Name one.

• Formal social structure of large bureaucracies and impersonal mass media
• Rationalism and interest groups replacing sentiment
• Traditional ties and occupation-based relations
• Commercial structure with complex division of labor

Louis Wirth believed urban planning was necessary to make cities more humane, counteracting their destructive tendency.

• True
• False

Claude Fischer's subcultural theory contends that subcultures reach a critical mass then disappear.

• True
• False

Which is among the four urban lifestyles identified by Herbert Gans?

• Cosmopolite
• Unmarried or childless
• Ethnic villager
• Deprived or trapped

Modern research shows cities to be as impersonal as past theories have believed.

• True
• False