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SO 200. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE: ESSENTIALS, Chapters 15 & 16 Urbanization, Population, Environment, and Globalization Chapter 15: Urbanization, Population, and the Environment 1. What were the main characteristics of cities in traditional societies? What are the main characteristics of modern cities? 2. Define the following: Urban Ecology Suburbanization Gentrification Global City (what are the four traits of global cities?) Demography Fertility Life Expectancy Demographic Transition (name the three stages) Sustainable Development Kyoto Protocol 3. What was Jane Jacobs’ contribution to the study of cities? What was David Harvey’s contribution to the study of cities? 4. How often do Americans typically move? 5. What factors motivate international migration? 6. Where is population growing fastest? What continent will contain half of the world’s population by 2025? 7. Who are the world’s major consumers? 8. What major industrial countries have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol? (See other side for Chapter 16.) STUDY GUIDE: ESSENTIALS, Chapter 16: Globalization Social Change and Social Movements 1. How long have humans been on earth? How long ago did agriculture develop? 2. What did Heraclitus mean when he said, “A person cannot step into the same river twice”? 3. Define the following: Postindustrial Society Postmodernism Social Movements 4. What did Karl Marx mean by “contradictions”? 5. What are the four main components of collective action, according to Charles Tilly? 6. What is the “antisweatshop movement”? What are its major issues? 7. What are “new social movements”? 8. How has technology affected social movements? Globalization 1. What are the factors contributing to globalization? 2. How have worldwide political changes affected globalization? 3. What are “transnational corporations” and how have they influenced globalization? 4. What are the major positions in the debate about globalization? 5. What is Sociologists without Borders trying to achieve? 6. How does globalization affect work patterns? How has globalization affected popular culture? 7. What are “manufactured risks”? (See “The Manufactured Risks of Electronic Viruses and World Climate Change, 470-471) 8. What is the difference between “free trade” and “fair trade”? 9. Are existing governments able to address the problems of globalization?
