Chapter 15
A designation of class that considers income, occupation, and education.
What is socioeconomic class?
What is demography?
Places where buyers and seller exchange goods and services
The unequal distribution of valued goods and opportunities.
What is Inequality?
Areas within metropolitan regions but outside the political boundaries of central cities; fostered by government subsidies for home ownership and highway construction
What are suburbs?
Theory that education channel people into
positions and institutions that offer different opportunities
What is allocation theory?
The number of children per woman necessary to replace the population
What is the replacement fertility rate?
A group engaged in a specific activity that has an
identifiable purpose or goal and that has an enduring form of association that is independent of the people involved in it at any one moment
What is an organization?
Term used by sociologists to identify groups of people in similar economic positions, who have similar opportunities in life, and who benefit (or are hurt by) the same government policies
What is "Social Class"?
The stretching out of suburban
boundaries
What is suburban sprawl?
Individuals are more likely to marry others
with similar education levels
What is educational homogamy?
Defined by the number of children an average
woman has in her lifetime
What are total fertility rates?
Composed of ties between people: family/kinship ties, friends, colleagues, classmates, etc.
What are social networks?
The net value of the assets (minus debts) owned by the individual or family
What is wealth?
The resources available to individuals through their
relationships and networks
What is Social Capital?
The stock of knowledge, skill and habits which they can use to do productive labor later in life
What is human capital?
Consists of all people born within a given period of time
What is a birth cohort?
Refers to the tendency of an organization to imitate another organization's structure
What is mimetic isomorphism?
How much individuals or families actually consume in a given time period
What is consumption?
A concentrated areas of business, shopping, and
entertainment just outside of the historical urban centers of commerce
What is an edge city?
Refers to the requirement of certain specific degrees or certificates before you can be considered for a particular job
What is credentialism?
Refers to the transition of a population from health conditions primarily involving infectious disease to health conditions primarily involving chronic disease
What is the epidemiological transition?
Refers to tendency of an organization to change when pressured by another organization in which they are dependent upon and by cultural expectations from society .
What is coercive isomorphism?
Refers to the receipt of money or goods over a particular accounting period (a year, month, week, day)
What is income?
A geographically continuous urban area that stretches across city
What is a conurb?