Community. Deindustrialization. Demography. Edge Cities. Female Infanticide. Fertility. Gentrification. Ghetto. Immigration. Infanticide. Megalopolis. Metropolis.
Chapter Twenty: Population and Urbanization Key Terms and Concepts Alienation Cities City Dwellers City Life Community Deindustrialization Demography Edge Cities Female Infanticide Fertility Gentrification Ghetto
Immigration Infanticide Megalopolis Metropolis Mortality Population Population Growth Rural Suburbanization Urban Renewal Urbanization Zero Population Growth
Preview of Featured Articles Key Term or Concept: Gentrification Article and Synopsis: “Landscapes of Poverty” by Nicholas Blomley The article discusses the concept of landscapes in understanding the social dimensions of property, the social contexts of property theories, and the meanings of landscape. The landscape framework is used to understand the resistance to gentrification in a poor neighborhood of a Canadian city. Key Term or Concept: Cities Article and Synopsis: “Will the Real Creative City Please Stand Up?” by Paul Chatterton Chatterton comments on the idea associated with the creative city concept in England. Details on the social and economic decline of the urban areas are provided. The development of cultural industries is offered as well as the strategies of local councilors and politicians. Key Term or Concept: Demography Article and Synopsis: “Homosexual Demography: Implications for the Spread of AIDS” by Christopher Hewitt Hewitt provides a meta-analysis of the demographics of male homosexuality in the United States during the post-war period. He examines the numbers, ages, distribution, life expectancy, and marital status of men who have sex with other men. The article makes implications of homosexual demographics for the spread of AIDS.
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Key Term or Concept: Urbanization Article and Synopsis: “Small Towns, Mass Society, and the Twenty-First Century” by James D. Wright Small towns are disappearing from the United States. The article provides reasons for this and examines urbanization in the United States in the twenty-first century. The literature review addresses the living preferences of the population and the importance of small towns in the country’s political life.
Featured Articles from Content Select Baines, Donna. 1997. “Feminist Social Work in the Inner City: The Challenge of Race, Class, and Gender.” Journal of Women and Social Work 12: pp. 297-318. Blomley, Nicholas. 1998. “Landscapes of Poverty.” Law and Society Review 32: pp. 567-615. Bonner, Kieran. 1998. “Reflexivity, Sociology, and the Rural-Urban Distinction in Marx, Tonnies, and Weber.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 35: pp. 165-190. Brown, Lester R. 2001. “Cars and Crops Compete for Land.” Futurist 35: pp. 55-57. Chatterton, Paul. 2000. “Will the New Creative City Please Stand Up?” City 4. Conway, McKinley. 1999. “The Great Cities of the Future.” Futurist 33: pp. 28-31. Cummins, Linda K., Richard J. First, and Beverly G. Toomey. 1998. “Comparison of Rural and Urban Homeless Women.” Journal of Women and Social Work 98: pp. 435-454. DeFina, Robert H. 2000. “Changing Population Weights in a Decomposable Poverty Index.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 1: pp. 1-11. Ellis, Mark. 2000. “Mark One or More: Counting and Projecting by Race on U.S. Census 2000 and Beyond.” Social and Cultural Geography 1. Hayward, Stephen. 1999. “Suburban Legends.” National Review 51: pp. 35-38. Hegde, Radha S. 1999. “Marking Bodies, Reproducing Violence: A Feminist Reading of Female Infanticide in South India.” Violence Against Women 5: pp. 507-525. Hewitt, Christopher. 1998. “Homosexual Demography: Implications for the Spread of AIDS.” Journal of Sex Research 35: pp. 390-397.
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Hines, Andy. 1998. “Population Growth: Two Warring Paradigms.” Futurist 32: pp. 68-69. Holston, Mark. 2000. “Where Has All the Water Gone?” Americas 52: pp. 32-40. Johnson, Dan. 1999. “Cities Learn to Think Small.” Futurist 33: pp. 10-16. Lee, Matthew R. 2000. “Modernization, Gender, Equality, and Mortality Rates in Less Developed Countries.” Sociological Spectrum 20: pp. 195-221. Matsumoto, Yasushi. 2000. “Japanese Urban Sociology: Development and Current Trends.” American Sociologist 31: pp. 58-72. May, Christopher. 2000. “The Information Society as a Mega Machine.” Information, Communication, and Society 3: pp. 241-266. Monti, Daniel J. 2000. “Why Cities Still Matter.” Society 38: pp. 19-28. Moss, Mitchell L., Robert F. Wagner, and Anthony M. Townsend. 2000. “The Internet Backbone and the American Metropolis.” Information Society 16: pp. 35-48. Rosenfeld, Richard, Steven F. Messner, and Eric P. Baumer. 2001. “Social Capital and Homicide.” Social Forces 80: pp. 283-310. Ruchelman, Leonard L. 2000. “Cities in the Next Century.” Society 38: pp. 33-39. Shapiro, Robert. 1999. “How Genetic Engineering Will Save Our Planet.” Futurist 33: pp. 28-30. Wargon, Sylvia T. 2001. “Connections: Demography and Sociology in the Twentieth Century.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 26: pp. 309-332. Wright, James D. 2000. “Small Towns, Mass Society, and the Twenty-First Century.” Society 38: pp. 3-11.
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