Metro 101 Exam 2 questions well
answered to pass
Capitalist/Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔✔ Class that owns the means of production
Proletariat - correct answer ✔✔ Class that labors without owning the means of production
Class consciousness - correct answer ✔✔ Recognition by members of a class of their shared
interest in opposition to members of another class. This would lead to revolutionary upheaval
Two dimensions to the definition of class consciousness - correct answer ✔✔ (1) idea that a
class structure exists, (2) class identification
Society - correct answer ✔✔ A group of people who interact in a defined geographical area and
share a similar culture
Gemeinschaft - correct answer ✔✔ Community; a society based on tradition, kinship, and
intimate social relationships.
Gesellschaft - correct answer ✔✔ Industrial society; weak family ties, competition, and less
personal social relationships
Alienation - correct answer ✔✔ The experience of isolation resulting from the worker being
dispossessed of his/her product by the capitalist mode of production (marx)
Modernization - correct answer ✔✔ The process of social change initiated by industrialization
, Decline of small, traditional communities - correct answer ✔✔ Cars, TV, and high tech
communications
Expansion of personal choice - correct answer ✔✔ An unending series of options referred to as
"individualization"
increasing social diversity - correct answer ✔✔ modernization promotes a more rational,
scientific world view
mechanical solidarity - correct answer ✔✔ shared beliefs, values, and traditions, homogeneity
of thought; typical of rural areas and simple societies
Organic solidarity - correct answer ✔✔ Society held together by a specialized division of labor;
common in complex societies
Anomic division of labor - correct answer ✔✔ result of decrease communications between
people doing different specialized tasks
George Simmel: The mental life of the metropolis - correct answer ✔✔ society is not an abstract
creation- rather it is an intricate web of patterned multiple relations between individuals in
constant interaction
Wirth - correct answer ✔✔ Urban dwellers develop coping mechanisms for living in high
density, heterogeneous areas, including becoming sophisticated and depersonalizing from
others
Robert Park - correct answer ✔✔ Believed that to understand the city, we had to get out there
and see how it worked.
answered to pass
Capitalist/Bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔✔ Class that owns the means of production
Proletariat - correct answer ✔✔ Class that labors without owning the means of production
Class consciousness - correct answer ✔✔ Recognition by members of a class of their shared
interest in opposition to members of another class. This would lead to revolutionary upheaval
Two dimensions to the definition of class consciousness - correct answer ✔✔ (1) idea that a
class structure exists, (2) class identification
Society - correct answer ✔✔ A group of people who interact in a defined geographical area and
share a similar culture
Gemeinschaft - correct answer ✔✔ Community; a society based on tradition, kinship, and
intimate social relationships.
Gesellschaft - correct answer ✔✔ Industrial society; weak family ties, competition, and less
personal social relationships
Alienation - correct answer ✔✔ The experience of isolation resulting from the worker being
dispossessed of his/her product by the capitalist mode of production (marx)
Modernization - correct answer ✔✔ The process of social change initiated by industrialization
, Decline of small, traditional communities - correct answer ✔✔ Cars, TV, and high tech
communications
Expansion of personal choice - correct answer ✔✔ An unending series of options referred to as
"individualization"
increasing social diversity - correct answer ✔✔ modernization promotes a more rational,
scientific world view
mechanical solidarity - correct answer ✔✔ shared beliefs, values, and traditions, homogeneity
of thought; typical of rural areas and simple societies
Organic solidarity - correct answer ✔✔ Society held together by a specialized division of labor;
common in complex societies
Anomic division of labor - correct answer ✔✔ result of decrease communications between
people doing different specialized tasks
George Simmel: The mental life of the metropolis - correct answer ✔✔ society is not an abstract
creation- rather it is an intricate web of patterned multiple relations between individuals in
constant interaction
Wirth - correct answer ✔✔ Urban dwellers develop coping mechanisms for living in high
density, heterogeneous areas, including becoming sophisticated and depersonalizing from
others
Robert Park - correct answer ✔✔ Believed that to understand the city, we had to get out there
and see how it worked.
