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PPD 2024 Prep Final Exam Questions & Answers 100% CORRECT What are the foci of study for urban sociology? - ANSWERS1. Social interactions in the city. 2. Patterns of social stratification. 3. Social deviance - drawing lines. 4. Structures and institutions - race, class, religion and gender. According to Kilcullen, why was Mumbai (and contemporary urban development, in general) particularly vulnerable? - ANSWERS1. Legal, global flows of material - LeT raiders take advantage of this to smuggle weapons into Mumbai. 2. Littoralization - concentration of population on the coast makes it more vulnerable. 3. Scale of urban life - lots more potential victims, lots more potential combatants - difficulty governing & policing. 4. Technology - smart phones, skype, HQ in Karachi - controlled remotely, reconnaissance with open source public access technology, victims call friends & family, use social media. How does Jefferson characterize city dwellers? - ANSWERSHe sees them as immoral and corrupt. He argues that their dependence on others begets subservience and venality (unprincipled self-interest) and suffocates the germ of virtue. Why does Jefferson argue that the United States should remain an agrarian society? - ANSWERSSince the U.S. has such an immensity of land, all the citizens should be employed in its improvement. Also, because farmers are more moral, virtuous and trustworthy than people living in cities. He says that the loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic would be made up in happiness and permanence of government. The independence of a small, self-sufficient farmer was a way of thinking about the ideal citizen. Someone who owned his own land, worked for himself, and owed nothing to anyone could therefore be trusted with the public good. He wouldn't need favors from other people, and so he wouldn't get caught up in political schemes.