首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed peop
Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed peop
admin
2013-01-20
63
问题
Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people’s natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin (亲戚)and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relati onships with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obviousness" is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than are big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation, a feeling of not belonging, than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and this leads them to a distrust of strangers.
These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference. If neighbors are strangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young troublemakers. Moreover, as Wirth suggested, there may be a link between a communi-ty’s population size and its social heterogeneity (多样性). For instance, sociologists have found much evi-dence that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc. Large-city ur-banites are also more likely than their small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan (见多识广者的)out-look, to display less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candi-dates, and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so-called un-desirabies. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.
It can be inferred from the passage that the bigger a community is_____.
选项
A、the better its quality of life
B、the more similar its interests
C、the more tolerant and open-minded it is
D、the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress
答案
C
解析
推理题。C项正是文章最后几句话的概括。A项与第二段第五句话(but the quality of life doesn’t differ between town and city)相悖;D项与第二段第6句话(Nor are residents…)意思相反。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/uN2O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
"DoyouwanttoseemyIDcardormydriver’slicense?""______willdo."
Recentlyscientistshavebeen【1】andperfectingothersourcesofenergy:nuclearoratomicpower,solar(sun)power,andsyntheti
Moreoftenthannot,itisdifficultto______theexactmeaningofaChineseidiominEnglish.
Ifitwereonlynecessarytodecidewhethertoteachelementarysciencetoeverycneonamassbasisortofindthegiftedfewa
Weregrettoinformyouthatthematerialsyouorderedare______.
Americanwomenexperienceagreat【1】oflifestyles.A"typical"Americanwomanmaybesingle.Shemayalsobedivorcedormarried
Thereareover6,000differentcomputerandonlinegamesintheworldnow.Asegmentofthemareconsideredtobebotheducation
Justoverayearago,Ifoolishlylockedupmybicycleoutsidemyoffice,butforgottoremovethepannier.WhenIreturned,the
Justoverayearago,Ifoolishlylockedupmybicycleoutsidemyoffice,butforgottoremovethepannier.WhenIreturned,the
Opponentsofaffirmativeactionsaythebattleovertheuseofraceincollegeadmissionsishardlyover,despitetheSupremeCo
随机试题
盆腔手术后疑有输尿管损伤时,应采取的诊疗措施是
A.肺结核空洞B.慢性阻塞性肺气肿C.慢性支气管炎早期D.上呼吸道感染E.急性支气管炎
可终止早孕的药物是
沥青路面封层的作用是()。
混合土配合比设计步骤()。
主要环节为“折页→配书帖和封面→订书→切书→检查包装”的是()的工艺流程。
2008年,在遭遇严重自然灾害和世界金融危机严重影响的不利条件下,我国的宏观经济发展成绩斐然;全国新增就业岗位1000万,失业率与2007年持平;国民经济增长速度达到9%,全国GDP超过30万亿元;物价水平从2月份8.7%的高点逐月回落,全年通货膨胀率为5
手机成为现实生活中的“第三者”,横亘在人与人之间的小小手机,却隔出了心理上最遥远的距离。沉迷于手机世界的“低头族”是该抬起头来,望望被他们遗忘的生活、学习,想想被他们忽视的亲朋好友了。在任何时代,人都应该是技术的主人,而不应该沦为技术的奴隶。,毕竟,每个人
改正下列错别字金榜提名(首都师范大学2015)
A、Humanlivesbecomeworsethaneverbefore.B、Humanlivesbecomebetterthaneverbefore.C、Humanliveshavenochangeatall.
最新回复
(
0
)