Unit 14 Concepts
The important concepts in Unit 14 are listed below. The readings and other learning opportunities are designed to help you become familiar with these concepts. You should know the definitions of each concept and also how sociologists use these concepts. Try to incorporate these concepts into your work for this course.
| (1) Demography | (25) Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) |
| (2) Fertility | (26) Rural Rebound |
| (3) Crude Birth Rate | (27) Gemeinschaft |
| (4) Mortality | (28) Gesellschaft |
| (5) Crude Death Rate | (29) Mechanical Solidarity |
| (6) Infant Mortality Rate | (30) Organic Solidarity |
| (7) Life Expectancy | (31) Urban Ecology |
| (8) Migration | (32) Social Area Analysis |
| (9) Population Growth Rate | (33) Majority Minority |
| (10) Natural Growth Rate | (34) Ecology |
| (11) Doubling Time | (35) Natural Environment |
| (12) Population Composition | (36) Environmental Deficit |
| (13) Sex Ratio | (37) I = P A T |
| (14) Population Pyramid (Age-Sex Pyramid) | (38) Limits to Growth |
| (15) Malthusian Theory | (39) Disposible Society |
| (16) Demographic Transition Theory | (40) Recycling |
| (17) Zero Population Growth | (41) Water Supply |
| (18) Urbanization | (42) Water Pollution |
| (19) First Urban Revolution | (43) Air Pollution |
| (20) Second Urban Revolution | (44) Rain Forest Destruction |
| (21) Female Empowerment | (45) Global Warming |
| (22) Metropolis | (46) Biodiversity Decline |
| (23) Suburb | (47) Environmental Racism |
| (24) Megalopolis | (48) Sustainable Culture |
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