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related to rumors but tend to be about a person's personal affairs |
gossip |
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Why is the current migration pattern in the United States happening, and what will the consequences be? |
industrial jobs moving which is causing people to move;middle class working more pay less |
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What are the functions of schooling? |
to educate people; Socialization Social Integration |
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What is a latent function of schooling? (Manifest) |
It provides child care to keep kids off the streets |
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How does the social conflict paradigm explain schooling? |
thinks schools pacifies people, teaches them submissiveness, and teaches them the status quo |
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what is tracking? |
categorize students into different categories |
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is the way knowledge is transmitted to the members of society |
education |
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the formal instruction from trained teachers |
schooling |
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How is public K-12 education paid for? |
property taxes |
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How does one answer "unanswerable" questions? |
faith |
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What is the relationship between education and religion? |
more education, less religion in life |
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Know in general, how many people belong to each of the major religions of the world. |
christians-2billion islamics-1.5billion buddhists-1/2 billion confunsionists-200m jews-20m |
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according to max vapor- set of beliefs and practices, the focus on sacred things severs to create a community of worshipers |
religion |
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shared public faith through a general set of beliefs, symbols, and rituals that contain religious elements ex. national anthem |
civil religion |
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anything thought to be superior in power, set apart from practical and ordinary and creates a sense of awe |
sacred |
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process by which religion losses influence within groups or society |
secularization |
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What are the four functions of religion? |
1. Social control 2. Social Cohesion 3. Social Change 4. Comprehensible |
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What are the current trends in religion of America? |
-Mainline tends to get smaller -increases in Catholic and Conservative Protestant( evangelical) and new age spirituality |
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What is the most preventable health hazard in the United States? |
smoking |
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What do people over 65 typically die from? |
chronic illness |
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The census bureau defines rural as a rural area or city with less than ___ people. |
2,500 |
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study of human pop; quantifiedex. race,age,gender |
demography |
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Explain what characteristics are a demographer is interested in? |
age, race, gender |
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incidence of child baring in a society's population |
fertility |
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Number of births in a given year per 1,000 people in a pop |
crude birth rate |
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incidence of death in society's population |
mortality |
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Number of deaths in a given year per 1,000 people in a pop |
crude death rate |
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number of children who are born alive, but die before reaching 1 per 1,000 people |
infant mortality |
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in migration (move somewhere); into a country or into a region |
immigration |
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moving away from somewhere or out of a territory |
emmigration |
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amount of time it takes for societies population to double |
double time |
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How long is the worlds double time |
61 years |
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What is the world sex ratio? |
49% male to 51% women 100 male to 102 women |
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What is the world's population |
7.2 billion |
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What is the population of the United States |
320 million |
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What is the population of Australia |
25 million |
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What percent of Americans are involved in agriculture? |
2 % (5 million) |
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What where Thomas Malthus's three positive checks? |
1. Famine - not enough food 2. Disease - people die 3. War - people kill people |
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describe Demographic Transition Theory |
as societies move from preindustrial to industrial, changes in mortality and fertility cause them to go through a series of stages that eventually end in a stable population |
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What are 4 ways to limit population growth? |
Laws, education,economics,empowerment of women |
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which of the two would work best? |
education and economics |
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concentration of humanities within a city |
urbanization |
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one big urban area; 2 urban areas so big they run into each otherex. dallas, fortworth |
megalopolis |
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What led to the boom in both population growth and urbanization? |
industrial revolution |
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What are the 4 different stages of urbanization in American |
1. Colonial settlement 2. Urban Expansion 3. Metropolitan Era 4. Urban decentralization |
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What are the three main reasons people moved to suburbs? |
transportation, money, race (mainly white) |
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Why is the current migration pattern in the United States happening, and what will the consequences be? |
industrial jobs moving which is causing people to move;middle class working more pay less |
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What is the current migration pattern in the US and what are the consequences. |
moving from the snow belt to the sun belt because jobs are going away in the snow belt and consequences are negative |
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What were Louis Wirth's three factors, which define urbanism? |
1. Large Population 2. Dense settlement 3. Social Diversity |
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What is the population of Tokyo? |
37 million |
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spontaneous activity involving large numbers of people don't conform to establish norms |
collective behavior |
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organized activity that encourages social change |
social movement |
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large number of people who interact little in the absent of norms |
Collectivity |
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temporary gathering of people who share a common interest and member influence one another |
crowd |
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Violent crowd usually have a purpose LYNCH |
mob |
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violent crowd with no specific purpose |
riot |
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ambiguous changeable and hard to stop |
rumor |
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tends to stay around for a whileex.jeans |
fashion |
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die out quickly |
fads |
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related to rumors but tend to be about a person's personal affairs |
gossip |
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What are the 3 explanations or theories of crowd behavior |
1. Contagion Theory 2. Convergence Theory 3.Emergent Norm Theory |
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What are the 4 types of social movements? |
1. alternative 2. redemptive 3. reformative 4. revolutionary |
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What type of change does each social movement promote? |
1. alternative - limited 2. redemptive - radical 3. reformative - limited 4. revolutionary - radical |
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Who does each social movement target? |
1. alternative - specific 2. redemptive - specific 3. reformative - entire society 4. revolutionary - entire society |
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How does Deprivation Theory describe social movements? |
some people feel deprived of what they feel they deserve; join social movement to change that |
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How does Mass society theory describe social movements? |
outcast or socially isolated are recruited for social movement |
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How does resource mobilization theory describe social movements? |
it takes the necessary resources and propaganda to survive |
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How does new social movements describe social movements? |
you should work though the system to promote any change you are trying to promote |
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What are the four stages of social movements |
1. emergence 2. coalescence 3. bureaucratization 4. decline |
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Does the power elite understand social movements? |
yes |
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What is quantitative and what question does it answer? |
numbers is demography Where are people from and where are they goingASK what? |
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What is qualitative and what questions does it answer? |
is sitting down and talking with someone using in depth detailASk why |
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Europeans moving to america ;small settlement east |
Colonial settlement 180d- |
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transportation developed; people moved west but stayed near railroad |
Urban Expansion |
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start of population growth/ increase industry |
Metropolitan Era |
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move from cities to suburbs |
Urban decentralization |
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who we interact with |
localized collectivity |
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who we don't interact with because of distance |
dispersed collectivity |
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crowds have a hipnotic effect : collective mind |
Contagion Theory |
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tension is there;endured by spark |
Convergence Theory |
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norms arise from a situation on it |
Emergent Norm Theory |
