POPULATION
UBRANIZATION
ALIENATION AND ALTRUISM
THE ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
100
Study of the size, composition, distribution, and changes in human population
What is Demography?
100
Relating to cities; typically describes densely populated areas
What is urban?
100
Decreasing importance of social ties and community and the corresponding increase in impersonal associations and instrumental logic
What is alienation?
100
The natural world, the human-made environment, and the interaction between the two
What is environment?
100
The social movement organized around concerns about the relationship between humans and the environment
What is environmental movement?
200
Average age to which people in a particular population live
What is life expectancy?
200
AN urban area with a large population, usually 500,000 to 1 million people
What is metropolis?
200
Unselfish concern for the well-being of others and helping behaviors performed without self-interested motivation
What is altruism?
200
The study of the interaction between society and the natural environment, including the social causes and consequences of environmental problems
What is environmental sociology?
200
Beginning in the 1960s, the second major stage of the environmental movement; focused on the consequences of new technologies, oil exploration, chemical production, and nuclear power plants
What is modern environmental movement?
300
The uppermost age to which a person can potentially live
What is life span?
300
A derogatory term applied to the expansion of urban or suburban boundaries, associated with the irresponsibility or poorly planned development
What is urban sprawl?
300
The social dynamic wherein the more people there are present in a moment of crisis, the less likely any one of the is to take aciton
What is bystander effect (diffusion of responsibility)?
300
The variety of species of plants and animals existing at any given time
What is biodiversity?
300
Beginning in the 1980s, the third major stage of the environmental movement; characterized by increasing organization, well-crafted promotional campaigns, sophisticated political tactics, and science expertise
What is mainstream environmentalism?
400
The theory that exponential population growth will outpace growth in food production and other resources.
What is Malthusian theorem?
400
Transformation of the physical, social, economic, and cultural life of formerly working-class or poor inner-city neighborhoods into more affluent middle-class communities
What is gentrification?
400
q group of people living in the same local area who share a sense of participation and fellowship
What is community?
400
Any environmental contaminant that harms living beings
What is pollution?
400
Earliest stage of the environmental movement, which focused on the preservation of "wilderness" areas
What is conservation era?
500
A theory suggesting the possible transition over time from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates, resulting in stabilized population.
What is demographic transition?
500
A social situation that emphasizes individualism over collective or group identities
What is social atomization?
500
The process in which members of a group individually conclude that there is no need to take action because of the observation that other group members have done so
What is pluralistic ignorance?
500
Gradual increase in the earth's temperature, driven recently by an increase in greenhouse gases and other human activity
What is global warming?
500
Economic development that aims to reconcile global economic growth with the environmental protection
What is sustainable development?
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