Social Change
This fundamental document outlines the basic freedoms of people worldwide, adopted by the UN in 1948.
What is the UN Declaration of Human Rights?
The historical period where machines began replacing manual labor in manufacturing.
What is the industrial revolution?
An official agreement to stop fighting a war.
What is a ceasefire?
The movement of people from rural to urban areas, leading to the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
A country's population naturally increases when this rate is higher than the death rate.
What is a Fertility Rate (or Birth Rate)
The refusal to comply with certain laws as a form of peaceful protest.
What is civil disobedience?
The use of robots and AI to perform tasks previously done by humans in factories.
What is automation?
The UN sends these forces to help maintain stability in conflict zones.
What is Peacekeeping?
This term describes when wealthier individuals move into a poorer urban area, often displacing long-term residents.
What is Gentrification?
This model explains how countries transition from high birth and death rates to low ones over time.
What is the Demographic Transition Model
This global movement started in 2020 to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?
The growing gap between those who have access to modern technology and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
This Cold War strategy involved countries supporting wars indirectly through smaller conflicts in other nations.
What is a proxy war?
The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural land.
What is urban Sprawl?
A country experiencing a negative natural increase rate may face problems associated with this population trend.
What is an Ageing Population?
Movement of Women in the United States that succeeded in 1920 after years of activism.
What is Suffrage? (right to vote)
The shift from a manufacturing-based economy to one based on services, information, and knowledge.
What is post-industrialization?
Economic or trade restrictions placed on a country to influence its policies.
What are sanctions?
Curitiba, Singapore, and Copenhagen are known for this type of development, which integrates environmental and social sustainability into city planning.
What is a smart city?
This theory argues that population growth will outstrip food supply, leading to widespread famine and crisis.
What is the Malthusian Theory?
a theory that suggests that a small group of committed people can change social norms.
What is critical mass theory?
This economic theory argues that the stages of industrialization follow a specific pattern from traditional society to high mass consumption.
What is Rostow's stages of economic growth?
This theory argues that war is sometimes morally justifiable if it meets certain ethical criteria.
What is the Just War Theory?
The Favelas are an example of this
What is a slum/informal settlement?
The term for when educated and skilled individuals migrate away from their home country, reducing economic growth there
What is Brain Drain?