1. Define urbanization and suburbanization. What are some ways that urbanization and suburbanization contribute to social problems?

2. Explain the societal transition from mechanical to organic solidarity as identified by Émile Durkheim.

3. From an interactionist’s perspective, how connected are you to your community? Do you define your community by what you value in it or what you use within it?

4. Access to affordable and/or quality housing is a problem facing urban and suburban dwellers. Identify the extent of each problem and identify solutions for each.

5. It is difficult to accurately measure the extent of the homeless problem in the United States. How does this disadvantage our understanding of homelessness? Of attempting to solve it?

6. How can sociology be used to encourage the expansion of car-free or pedestrian zones? Which sociological perspective(s) would best apply?