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  2. The City (Park and Burgess book) - Wikipedia

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    The theory behind the book is an effect of long research focused on the city of Chicago. Park’s and Burgess’ urbanecology proposes that cities are environments like those found in nature, governed by numerous forces, with competition as the primary force.

  3. Concentric zone model - Wikipedia

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    Based on human ecology theory done by Burgess and applied on Chicago, it was the first to give the explanation of distribution of social groups within urban areas.This concentric ring model depicts urban land usage in concentric rings: the Central Business District (or CBD) was in the middle of the model, and the city is expanded in rings with different land uses.

  4. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". [1] The Global Human Settlement Layer framework produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built up maps, population density maps ...

  5. Social stratification - Wikipedia

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    With the scientific development of genetics and the human genome as fields of study, most scholars now recognize that race is socially defined on the basis of biologically determined characteristics that can be observed within a society while ethnicity is defined on the basis of culturally learned behavior.

  6. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Open stratification systems are those in which at least some value is given to achieved status characteristics in a society. The movement can be in a downward or upward direction. [2] Markers for social mobility such as education and class, are used to predict, discuss and learn more about an individual or a group's mobility in society.

  7. Race and society - Wikipedia

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    She identifies through her research the existence of DNA population clusters. She states that society would want to characterize these clusters as races. Society characterizes race as a set of physical characteristics. The clusters though have an overlap in physical characteristics and thus cannot be counted as a race by society or by science.

  8. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    Social structures can be influenced by individuals, but individuals are often influenced by agents of socialization (e.g., the workplace, family, religion, and school). The way these agents of socialization influence individualism varies on each separate member of society; however, each agent is critical in the development of self-identity. [15]

  9. Classless society - Wikipedia

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    A classless society is a society in which no one is born into a social class like in a class society. Distinctions of wealth , income , education , culture , or social network might arise and would only be determined by individual experience and achievement in such a society.