🧠 9B [Demographic Characteristics and Processes]

Symbolic Ethnicity

An ethnic identity that is only relevant on special occasions or in specific circumstances and that does not impact everyday life.

Social Movements

Philosophies that drive large numbers of people to organize to promote or resist social change.

Demographics

The statistical arm of sociology, which attempts to characterize and explain populations by quantitative analysis.

Demographic Transition

The transition from high birth and mortality rates to lower birth and mortality rates, seen as a country develops from a preindustrial to an industrialized economic system.

Mode

The most frequently occurring value in a set of observations.

Median

The simplest division of a set of values; the middle value that divides the values into the upper half and lower half.

Mean

The average, calculated as the sum of observed values divided by the number of observed values.