Urban Sociology Fill in the blanks

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Mizoram University

Sociology

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Chitranjan Nawab

SOC/VI/XI
2020 (CBCS)
(6th Semester) SOCIOLOGY
ELEVENTH PAPER (Urban Sociology)
Paper – XI

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UNIT – 1

1. The Industrial Revolution of the 17
th
and 18
th
century happened mainly in_______,
__________and America.
2. Urban sociology is concerned with _______ _________and related structures of the
urban areas.
3. Urban Sociology developed in North America through a number of sociologists at the
University of __________during 1915- 1940.
4. Robert E. Park propounded the ___________ ___________in his study of American
urban society.
5. The Metropolis and Mental Life influential for the growth of Urban Sociology was the
work of ___________ ___________.
6. The term ______________represents a way of life.
7. The concept urbanism was given its final shape by _________ ___________.
8. Louis Wirth says contacts between city dwellers are _________ and _________in nature.
9. Secondary relations tend to be more rational, ____________and ______________.
10. City life is characterized by formal, impersonal _______________contacts.
11. Louis Wirth says cities have become the favourable _____________ ___________of
new biological and cultural hybrids.
12. Diversity in urban cities stems from ethnic and cultural _____________of the urban
population.
13. Rural-urban convergence refers to the striking ___________between the village and town
or town in community life.
14. _________ _______opines that the city effects are wider than the city itself.
15. Everywhere big cities are characterized by_______ _______.
16. Sub-urban areas are like ____________cities built around a major city.
17. Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and _______ ______________in cities.
18. The study of urban society helps ________ _________in making and implementing
policies for the city.
19. Majority of ___________happens from rural to urban areas.
20. Study of urban population under Urban Sociology helps in controlling _______
______________and under population within the urban areas.

Unit- II

1. The most populated city during the 18
th
Century was ________________.
2. During the early 20
th
Century India, the most populated city was__________________.
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3. Origin of Industrial Sociology was closely related due to the growth of ___________
______________
4. Urban Sociology was first developed in University of ______________.
5. In India, Patrick Geddes an Urban Sociologist was associated with University of
_________________.
6. Multiple forms of Class and hierarchies are commonly found in ___________.
7. Various races and groups are mostly common in ________, not _________areas.
8. Social ____________is a feature of cities, and _____________is a feature of rural areas.
9. Large scale _____________ _____________is a feature of cities.
10. Push factor is a part of ________areas, and pull factor is a part of________ areas.
11. During the early 19
th
century, there were only ___ cities in the World.
12. Pre-industrial cities were __________ in nature.
13. Industrial cities exhibit high level of ____________.
14. Plebian cities are formed due to the outcome of _____________.
15. Natural increase in population is due to high __________rate than the death rate.
16. According to the 1901 census, only _______ of the total population in India lived in the
cities.
17. Expansion of urban areas results in engulfing _______ __________areas as part of the
city.
18. ___________is a process that mainly occurs from rural to urban areas.
19. Expansion of trade and _________, establishment of industries increases the process of
Urbanization.
20. The concept __________was formulated during 2016 by Dipankar Gupta.

Unit – III

1. According to Shah, the principle of residential unity of ___________ and wife was
practice to a great extent in Indian urban areas.
2. Ram Krishna Mukherjee‟s study of Bengal society was mainly on ____________.
3. The study of Kinship in rural areas suffers from the same dichotomous _________of
opposition between the rural and urban area.
4. In North Indian Kinship system, a wife is expected to be more closely related to her
_________
5. I.P Desai‟s study of kinship was conducted in ____________ .
6. The feature that defines urban culture is the ______________ of persons it entails in a
limited space which creates the possibility of building up a vast array of sub-cultures.
7. If villages are the symbol of cultural homogeneity, the cities symbolise cultural
8. According to Bogardus, “ _____________ characterise a city”.
9. The urbanites attach supreme importance to their own _________________ .
10. Urbanity and mobility are positively __________
11. Urban neighbourhood may not possess the same characteristics as _______________ .
12. Urban neighbourhood are much more walk able than their __________ counterparts.
13. Urban neighbourhoods are usually found in the ___________ core of a city.
14. Saraswati Raju states that urban neighbourhood does not exhibit the traditional pattern of
segregation by ____________ .
15. Huge rates of ______ are experienced by residents of urban neighbourhood.
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16. Voluntary association gives the individual a feeling of __________ with his fellow
men.`
17. Voluntary groups are persons organised for _____________ membership without state
control for the furtherance of some interest of its members.
18. The largest voluntary group in Mizoram is the __________________ .
19. People form voluntary groups for the ________ of others.
20. Caste and religious differences can be obliterated to some extent by inducing segregation
on ________________.

Unit -IV
1. Increased urbanization is a major concern for the _______________countries, since they
often lack the infrastructure and basic services.
2. Currently there are about ______ ___________people living in the slums.
3. _____________refers to the position that prostitution should be banned and third parties
criminalised with the prostitute herself not liable to state penalties.
4. ___________makes all prostitution illegal and all parties liable to penalties, including the
prostitutes.
5. A person below an age specified by the law, exhibits behaviour which may be dangerous to
society or to himself / herself, then such an individual may be called a _______ __________.
6. Crimes committed by minors are called __________ ______
7. In the case of delinquent acts, instead of a trial a juvenile has an __________after which
he/she receives a disposition and a sentence.
8. Juvenile delinquency is more an ________than a rural phenomenon.
9. ________ ________ _____was passed to provide care, protection, treatment, development
and rehabilitation of neglected or delinquent juveniles.
10. Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 has been passed by _________of
India.

11. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act came into force from 15th
January_______.
12. The word addiction is generally used to describe ________ dependence.
13. The total reaction to the deprivation of drug is known as „__________ ___________‟.
14. __________dependence occurs when an individual comes to rely on a drug for the feeling of
well-being it produces.
15. If the people living in place exceed the number of person the place can accommodate, it is
called _____________
16. Growing shortage of _____________is the beginning of overcrowding.
17. The 2011 Census of India recorded ____________urban slum households.
18. _________problems change with the passage of time.
19. All social problems are deviations from the _______situation.
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20. All social problems are caused by____________ social conditions.
Unit – V
1. The Mizoram Municipalities Act was passed in ______.
2. The tenure of Municipal council is ___years.
3. The number of executive councilors is _____in a municipal council.
4. The municipal ward committee consists of _____ members.
5. The present Aizawl Municipal corporation consists of ________councillors.
6. JNNURM was launched in the year _______.
7. AMRUT means Atal Mission for _____________and Urban Transformation.
8. The mission launced on 2
nd
Oct 2014 with the objective of universal sanitation
coverage is ________ ________ _________.
9. IHSDP stands for Integrated Housing and ______Development Programme.
10. National Urban Livelihoods Mission was launched in the year _______
11. All the daily activities of human beings are carried out on _____
12. Prices of land and house rents _______with increase in population.
13. ________ ___________is the possible remedy to check population growth.
14. Crowding and congestion are the results of ___________growth of towns.
15. Planning help human beings in leading a ________and fuller life.
16. Urban outlook is acquired through life ___________
17. The urban man is ______open to change than the rural man.
18. ___________is the prime mover of society.
19. Society is a hierarchy of social_________.
20. Rural behavior is strictly governed by ________and standards of the group.

ANSWER KEYS

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UNIT-I

1. Europe, Britain
2. Social relationship
3. Chicago
4. Ecological Approach
5. George Simmel
6. Urbanism
7. Louis R.Wirth
8. Fleeting, partial
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9. Calculative, intellectual
10. Secondary
11. Breeding ground
12. Heterogeneity
13. Similarities
14. Kingsley Davis
15. Sub-urban areas
16. Satellite
17. Human interaction
18. Urban planners
19. Migration
20. Over-population

UNIT-II

1. London
2. Kolkata
3. Industrial towns
4. Chicago
5. Bombay/Mumbai
6. Cities
7. Cities, rural
8. Heterogeneity, homogeneity
9. Division of labour
10. Rural, urban
11. 21
12. Feudal
13. Technology
14. Revolutions
15. Birth
16. 10.8%
17. Semi-urban
18. Migration
19. Commerce
20. Rurban

UNIT-III

1. Part kin
2. Communal tension
3. Assertion
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4. Agnates of her husband
5. Mahuva town
6. Diversity
7. Heterogeneity
8. Class extremes
9. Class welfare and happiness
10. Connected
11. Rural neighbourhood
12. Suburban
13. Downtown
14. Religion or caste
15. Stress
16. Community
17. Voluntary
18. Young Mizo Association
19. Benefit
20. Economic basis

UNIT-IV

1. Less- developed
2. One billion
3. Abolitionism
4. Prohibitionism
5. Juvenile delinquent
6. Delinquent Acts
7. Adjudication
8. Urban
9. Juvenile Justice Act
10. Parliament
11. 2016
12. Physical
13. Abstinence syndrome
14. Psychological
15. Coercion
16. Overcrowding
17. Housing
18. 1.3 crore
19. Ideal
20. Pathological
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UNIT-V

1. 2007
2. Five (5)
3. Three (3)
4. Ten (10)
5. Nineteen (19)
6. 2005
7. Rejuvenation
8. Swatch Bharat Mission
9. Slum
10. 2013
11. Land
12. Increase
13. Town planning
14. Unplanned
15. Richer
16. Experiences
17. More
18. Education
19. Relations
20. Norms

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