SOC102: Chapter 14

What is urbanization?

• The process of towns and cities being formed and areas becoming more urban

• The process whereby an agricultural society experiences an economic shift toward manufacturing

What is industrialization?

• The process of towns and cities being formed and areas becoming more urban

• The process whereby an agricultural society experiences an economic shift toward manufacturing

Favela is another word for...

• megacity

• slum

• demographic transition

________ ________ is a shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

• Demographic transition

• Population shift

• Generational transition

• Age shift

When did the world become predominantly urban?

• 1870

• 1950

• 2007

• 1908

Select all that modern cities have been resulted from:

• Fundamental socioeconomic changes

• Industrialization and factory work, which increased economic centralization

• Migration of population from rural to urban

Urban is an area that has more than ____ individuals and a population density of at least 400 people per square kilometer.

• 2 000

• 1 000

• 600

• 800

• 1 500

What is population density?

• Where the population of a city is the most dense

• The average number of people in a city in a given country

• The average number of individuals living in one square kilometer

What defines a city?

• An urban area with a population of more than 100 000 people

• An area with a population density of 500 people living in one square kilometer

True or False:

Most urbanization growth is now happening in the less developed world

• True

• False