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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2007

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Demography
Definition
population size, distribution, comosition, and change
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Ecology
Definition
study of the relationship btw the living & the non living components of an ecosystem
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crude birth rate
Definition
# of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
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general fertility rate
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the annual # of live births per 1000 women age 15 to 44
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specific fertility
Definition
# of live births per 1000 women in a specific age group
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fecundity
Definition
the potential # of children a women can bare
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zero population growth
Definition
it takes an average of 2.1 children per womn of childbearing age for modern population to replace itself without immigration
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crude death rate
Definition
# of deaths per 1000 members of a population in a given year
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age specific death rate
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the # of deaths per 1000 individuals in a specific age group
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infant mortality rate
Definition
# of deaths amoung infants under one year of age per 1000 live births
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net migration rate
Definition
the increase or decrease per 1000 members of the population in a given year that results from people entering or leaving a society
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growth rate
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a society is the difference btw births and deaths plus the difference btw immigrant and emigrants, per 1000 population
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rate of natural increase
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difference btw the birth and death rate
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population pyramid
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the age and sex composition of a population. youngest group on bottom, olderst on top
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Demographic transition theory
Definition
process of modernization is associated with three stages in population change
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concentric circle model/concentric zone theory
Definition
center of the city is the most wealthy with the biggest buisnesses, and as you move outword, the citizens become less rich and the buisnesses become smaller
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sector theory
Definition
wedge shapes
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multiple nuclei theory
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does not have a center but has several, has little "boxes"
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segregation
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process of clustering wherein individuals and groups are sifted and sorted out in space based on their sharing of certain traits or activities in common
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natural areas
Definition
segregated areas that become natural areas becuase they do not result from any official planning by government units
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invasion
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takes place when a new type of people, institution, or actitvity encroaches on an an area occupied by a different type
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succession
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should invasion continue until the encroaching type displace the other, then it's called succession
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ray nicholson
Definition
the MOST sexy man alive that i get to do evey weekend
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urban gentrification
Definition
the return of the middle class usually young white childless professionals to older neighborhoods (happening in large cities)
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Least industrialized nations are growing 15 times faster than the most industrialed nations, why?
Definition
1. status of partenthood 2. community values (children=gods blessing) 3. children are conomic assets
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elements of a city?
Definition
1. development of more efficient agriculture allowed farming to produce surplus 2. new forms of social organizations greated bureacratic structures and stratification
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what did the industrial revolution do?
Definition
1. provide work 2. stimulate rapid transportation and communitcation which allowed peole, resources and products to move more efficiently
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metropolitan/metropolis
Definition
a central city surrounded by smaller cities and their suburbs
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megacity
Definition
city of 10 million or more resients (USA: LA) (19 total)
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anti-Maltuesians
Definition
they believe that all countries will follow this trend, birth rate and death rates canel out. over population will take care of its self with natural disasters, bith rate and death rate remain equal until industrailization, death rate drops cuz of medical advances, birth rates dropped cuz of fewer # of children needed
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Maltusians
Definition
overpopulation is envitable=food shortage
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Marx view population
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more people would have to get jobs ( including women ) therefore they will have less sex and less children will be born
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who does charlotte love!!?!?
Definition
RAY!!
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social change
Definition
alterations in the patterns of culture, structure, and social behavior over time
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discovery
Definition
addition to knowledge
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invention
Definition
uses existing knowledge insome novel form
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diffusion
Definition
the process by which culturaltraits spread from one social unit to another
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cultural lag
Definition
values, norms, beliefs, and institutions, must adapt or respond to change in material culture, resulting in an adjustment gap Ogburn calls
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Modernization
Definition
process by which a society moves from traditional preindustrial social economic arrangements to those characterisic of industrial societies
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world system
Definition
approaches view the social structures of developing nations as shped by the historical expierences of colonialmism, the timing and maner of their incorporation into the global capitlist economy and the perpetuation of their dependency through politcal domination
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collective behavior
Definition
ways of thinking feeling, and acting that develop amoung a large number of ppl and that are relatively spontaneous and unstrctured
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fashion
Definition
folkway that lasts for a short time and enjoys widespread aceptance within society
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fad
Definition
folkway that alsts for a short time and enjoys acceptance amoung only a segment of the population
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crazes
Definition
some fads become all consuming passions
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mass hysteria
Definition
rapid dissemination of behaviors incolving contagious anziety, usually associated with some mysterious force
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panic
Definition
irrational and uncoordinated but collective actions amoung ppl induced by the presence of an immediate, severe threat
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crowd
Definition
one the most familiar and at times spectacular forms of collective behavoir/ many types
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casual crowd
Definition
a collection of ppl who have little in common except that they may be viewing a common event such as looking through a department store window
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conventional crowd
Definition
number of ppl who have assembled for some specific purpose and who typically act in accordance with established norms such as ppl attending a baseball game or concert
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expressive crowd
Definition
aggregation of ppl who have gotten together for self stimulation and personal gratificaion such as occurs at a religious revival or a rock festival
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acting crowd
Definition
excited, colatile collection of ppl whoa re engaged in rioting, looting, or tother
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Deindividualization
Definition
psychological state of diminished identity and elf awarness
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contagion theory
Definition
emphasizes the part that rapidly communicated and uncritically accepted feelings, attitudes, and actions play in crowd settings
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convergence theorty
Definition
proposes that a crowd consists of a highly unrepresentative body of ppl who assemble becuase they share the samepredispositons
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emergent norm theory
Definition
lack of unanimity in many crowd situations and the differences in motives, attitudes, and acitons, that characterize crowd members.
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relative deprivation
Definition
a discontent associated with the gap between what ppl actually have and what they have come to expect and feel to their just due
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ideology
Definition
critical to social movement /sets of ideas
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revolutionary movements
Definition
advocate replacements of the existing value scheme
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reform moements
Definition
pursue change that will implement the existing value scheme more adequately
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resistance movements
Definition
to institute change but also to block change or to eliminate a previously unstituted change
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expressive movements
Definition
less concerned wit institutional change than twith a revovating or renewing of ppl from within, holiness
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