individuals who join a crowd or mob become "infected" by a mob mentality and lose the ability to reason
What is contagion theory?
100
any activity intended to bring about social change
What is activism?
100
the study of the size, composition,distribution, and change in human population.
What is demography?
100
the movement of increasing numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas
What is urbanization?
200
it can be deliberate, untended or unplanned, unintentional
What are the different types of social changes?
200
individual members of a crowd make their own decisions about behavior. Norms are created through others' acceptance or rejection of these behaviors.
What is emergent norm theory?
200
an attempt to resist social changes, maintain the status quo, or go back to an earlier form of social order
What is regressive?
200
the average number of births per 1,000 people in the population
What is fertility rates?
200
the social dynamic that shows that the more people that are present in a moment of crisis, the less likely any one of them is to take action.
What is bystander effect?
300
major physical event(hurricanes,earthquakes), demographic factors (aging of baby boomers) or discoveries and innovations (fire)
When can social change occur?
300
crowd, riot and mass behavior
What is the types of collective behavior?
300
efforts to promote forward- thinking social change
What is progressive?
300
believed that population growth will eventually outpace available resources and lead to a global catastrophe
What is neo-malthusians?
300
a group of densely populated metropolises that grow dependent on each other and eventually combine to form a huge urban complex.
What is megalopolis or megacity?
400
the most important contributions to social change have been this type of action (like Civil Rights Movement)
What is collective action?
400
fads- interests followed or fashion- the widespread custom or style of behaviors and appearance at a particular time or in a particular place or social dilemma
What are some examples of mass behavior?
400
the idea that technology plays a defining role in shaping society
What is technological determinism?
400
exponential population growth would outpace arithmetic growth in food production and other resources
What is the malthusian theorem?
400
a form of modern folklore, a story that is believed (incorrectly) to be true and is widely spread because it expresses concerns,fears, and anxieties about the social world.
What is urban legend?
500
a group or crowd of people who form together to take action towards a shared goal
What is collective behavior?
500
tragedy of the commons- when many individuals over-exploit a public resource and they deplete that resource and public goods dilemma- when individuals must contribute to a collective resource
What are specific social dilemmas?
500
the time between changes in material culture or technology and the resulting changes in the broader culture's relevant norms, values, meanings, and laws
What is cultural lag?
500
the movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purpose of resettling.
What is migration?
500
a derogatory term applied to the expansion of urban or suburban boundaries, associated with irresponsible or poorly planned development