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Demography
the study of the human population
TERM 2
fertility
DEFINITION 2
actual number of children born
TERM 3
crude birth
rate
DEFINITION 3
the number of live births per 1,000 people per year
TERM 4
rate of natural increase
DEFINITION 4
is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
TERM 5
migration
DEFINITION 5
permanent change of residence
Primary reason for low population in the
1750's
High death rates
TERM 7
Thomas Malthus Population growth
DEFINITION 7
passion between sexes and limited food supplies
TERM 8
How pop. growth should be checked
DEFINITION 8
starvation, war, and disease
TERM 9
Who said that technology could be harnessed
to produce a sufficient amount of food for a
growing population
DEFINITION 9
Karl Marx
TERM 10
Demographic transition
DEFINITION 10
Changing patterns of births and deaths due to
industrialization
Mass Suburbanization
economical, technology, and affluence
TERM 17
FHA and VA's affect on suburbanization
DEFINITION 17
provided loans for new houses only
TERM 18
urban consciousness
DEFINITION 18
large numbers, diversity, and high density
TERM 19
City Neighbors (Lois worth)
DEFINITION 19
strong ethnical, racial and family bonds based off of common
interests and cultures
TERM 20
Urban subcultures (Claude Fischer)
DEFINITION 20
intensity in social relationships unlike rural areas
Main problem that are facing
cities
economic decline
TERM 22
reducing crime
DEFINITION 22
lobbies constant surveillance lighting neighbor hood watch
small units that share an entry way
TERM 23
Collective behavior vs. institutionalized
behavior
DEFINITION 23
spontaneous behavior brought because conventional
behavior is inappropriate
TERM 24
generalized belief
DEFINITION 24
ideas people have about the source of their strain they are
experiencing and what can be done to alleviate it
TERM 25
preconditions of collective behavior
DEFINITION 25
precipitating factors structural strain structural
condusiveness generalized belief mobilization social control
assimilation
when a rumor is changed to fit in with a prejudice or
stereotype of those transmitting the rumor.
TERM 32
mass behavior
DEFINITION 32
collective action
TERM 33
mass hysteria
DEFINITION 33
an emotionally charged reaction by a large number of people
to some anxiety producing event
TERM 34
permissiveness within a crowd
DEFINITION 34
deindividuation/doing something you normally would not do
TERM 35
conventional crowd
DEFINITION 35
religious rally
acting crowd
protest demonstration
TERM 37
expressive crowd
DEFINITION 37
looting, personal gratification, smash property
TERM 38
contagion
DEFINITION 38
contagious behaviors, attitudes, feelings, through a crowd
TERM 39
emergent norms
DEFINITION 39
observing how people are reacting in crowd social
referencing
TERM 40
social movements
DEFINITION 40
collective behavior to bring about social change by
uninstitutionalized means
One negative element to postindustrial
society
unemployment from automation
