Discuss the conflict perspective on urbanization and the growth of cities
What will be an ideal response?
The following are suggested areas for students to address in their essays: Summarize the conflict perspective on urbanization and the growth of cities.
Analyze sociologists Joe R. Feagin and Robert Parker's three major themes in the political economy models of urban growth
Discuss capitalism and urban growth in the United States. Explain uneven development.
Describe the gated community in the capitalist economy and provide an example. Summarize sociologist Lynn M. Appleton's theory on gender regimes in cities.
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A) Bar girls B) Street walkers C) Parking lot lizards D) Stag party workers
Theory of collective behavior that argues that crowd unity results from the like-mindedness of its members:
A) contagion B) convergence C) emergent norm D) expressive
IV drug users continue to use unsafe needles and put themselves at the risk of getting the AIDS virus because
a) poor living conditions make addicts seek social status through bravado and daring. b) there are no ways of getting clean needles, because drug use is illegal. c) almost all IV drug users are homosexuals. d) drug addiction is so painful that they prefer to die by contracting AIDS.
Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu found that the perceptual schemes people draw upon are shaped in large part by their
a. social class position. b. hidden curriculum. c. tracking group. d. credentials.