Sociology Now, Census Update
inner-city police station). The distance was 19 miles, about the average suburban com- mute. Even with heavy traffic, driving su ...
As suburbs expanded outward, it was inevitable that they would meet the sub- urbs of adjacent cities, until they all combined in ...
he called organic solidarity—connections based on interdependence. Organic solidar- ity was more stable (if not as “nice”) than ...
Human Ecology Looking at the spatial patterns of the city, sociologists noted that they share many characteristics in common wit ...
■The deprived—poor, often ethnic minorities. ■The trapped—poor elderly people. Concentric Zones.Sociologists Robert Park and Ern ...
extent, the second tier of global cities—Jakarta, Milan, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro— businessmen and women armed with high-tech c ...
manufactured products. Local natural disasters like fires and floods can disrupt your life as quickly as human warfare, and ther ...
of the 1970s were conservation, avoiding the depletion of natural resources, and pol- lution, avoiding “fouling our nest” (Schna ...
Vanishing Resources Globally, forests are being depleted at the rate of one acre per second, depriving the world of a gigantic n ...
Pollution.There are three major sources of water pollution: domestic waste, industrial waste, and agricultural runoff. Indoor pl ...
parks and sweeping streets). Fourteen percent was incinerated, and 30.6 percent recycled or composted, but 54.5 percent went int ...
in a greenhouse effect. Many regions are already seeing an environ- mental impact: in Alaska and Canada, permafrost is thawing; ...
But with so many things that could go wrong and are going wrong, sociologists are taking note (Erikson, 1995; Wisner, 2003). One ...
648 CHAPTER 19SOCIOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTS: THE NATURAL, PHYSICAL, AND HUMAN WORLDS Chapter Review 1.What is the human environment? ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 649 19.1 Environmental Threats and Science These are actual survey data from the General Social Survey, ...
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651 AARP New name for the American Association of Retired Persons, the largest and most influential lobbying group for older peo ...
governing behavior, a logic of rationality, and an impersonal- ity of criteria. bureaucratic personality Robert Merton’s term to ...
GLOSSARY 653 correlation The term for the fact of some relationship between two phenomena. countercultures Subcultures that iden ...
dramaturgy Erving Goffman’s conception of social life as like a stage play wherein we all work hard to convincingly play our- se ...
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