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32 Cards in this Set
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Alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture, or social institutions over time,
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Social Change
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Relatively spontaneous, unstructured activity that typically violates established social norms.
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Collective Behavior
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A relatively large number of people who are in one anothers immediate face-to-face presence.
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Crowd
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A number of people who share an interest in a specific idea or issue, but who are not in one another's immediate physical vacinity.
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Mass
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Highly emotional crowd whose members engage in or are ready to engage in, violence against a specific target.
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Mob
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A form of crowd behavior that occurs when a large number of people react with strong emotions and self-destructive behavior to a real or preceived thought.
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Panic
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Violent crowd behavior fueled by deep-seated emotions, but not directed at a specific target.
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Riot
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Collective behavior takes place when people (who often are geographically seperated from one another) respond to the same event in much the same way.
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Mass Behavior
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Unsubstantiated reports on an issue or subject.
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Rumors
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Refers to rumors about the personal lives of individuals.
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Gossip
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Organiged group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action.
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Social Movement
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5 types of social movement
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Reform
Revolutionary Religious Alternative Resistance |
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Is best defined as the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
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Sociological Imagination
Answer is C |
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How do you determine Mean?
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Average
add #'s and divide by how many numbers their are. |
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How do you determine Median?
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Middle
60, 65, 75, 75, 80 The answer would be 75, because it is in the middle of the numbers. |
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How do you determine Mode?
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Show up most of the time (repeated numbers)
If no repeated numbers, their is no mode. |
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Malthus' positive checks on population growth.
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Famine
Disease Wars |
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Biological and social characteristics of a population.
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Population composition
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Number of males for every 1000 females within a population,
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Sex Ratio
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The process by which some societies have moved from high birth and death rates, to relatively low birth and death rates, as a result of technological development.
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Demographic Transition
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Number of live births per 1000 people, in a population in a given year.
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Crude birth rate
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Subfield of sociology that examines population size, composition, and distribution.
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Democracy
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Group of people that live in a specified geographic region.
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Population
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Actual level of child bearing for an individual or population.
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Fertility
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Incidence and death in a population.
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Mortality
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Movement of people from one geographic area, purpose of changing residency.
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Migration
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Movement of people into a geographic area to take up residence.
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Immigration
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Movement of people out of a geographic area to take up residence elsewhere.
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Emigration
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Three things that effect population growth.
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Fertility
Mortality Migration |
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In your own words what does social science mean.
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The study of people's behavior and relationships within in a society.
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What is the difference between ethnic group and racial group?
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Ethnic group - group of people based on their culture or nationality.
Racial group - group of people based on their physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair texture, and eye shape. |
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Changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in Europe contributed to the early development of sociology as a field of study.
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Revolution Change
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