Collective Behavior: unplanned and unstructured behavior engaged by large groups of people
Deindividuation: a loss of individuality
Fad: a craze of behavior quickly adopted by large groups of people that then fades rapidly
Moral Panic: a condition or event that is defined as being a physical or societal threat
Contagion Theory: unconventional behaviors resulting from a crowd infects with illogical and irrational beliefs
Convergence Theory: where crowds form due to like-minded individuals coming together
Emergent Norm Theory: where members of the crowd serve as reference group as new norms emerge that legitimize the behavior as appropriate
Gemeinschaft: a close-knit community characterized by personal and mutual bonds
Rural Area: sparsely populated with less than 1000 people per square mile
Megacities: a city with 10,000,000 or more in the population
Carrying Capacity: the numbers of people a geographic location or earth\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s ecosystems can support without deterioration
Demography: the statistical study of births, migration, aging, and death in relation to population dynamics
Mortality: the frequency of death in population
Infant Mortality Rate: the # of deaths of children less than one year of age per 1,000 births
Fertility Rate: the average # of children born to a woman over her lifetime
Replacement level fertility: the average # of children born per woman to replace themselves and their partner without migration
Birth rate: a formula to determine the number of live resident births for a specific location and time period
Population growth: the increase in the # of people in a population
Neo-Malthusian theory: a view proposing population control programs to ensure resources for current and future populations
life expectancy: the statistical average # of years a person is expected to live
graying of America: the rise in the % of elderly in the U.S. that creates structural challenges for families, govt, and the economy
global aging: the rise in the % of elderly in developed countries and the accompanying economic and world order effects
Push Factors: conditions that encourage people to leave their native land
pull factors: conditions that encourage people to relocate to a new homeland
Social movement: a collective effort by segments of society to enact social change in order to attain a particular goal