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 * **__Suburb__**-urban areas beyond the political boundaries of a city.


 * The movie Mean Girls takes place in a suburb, which is a smaller community outside of a big city. It takes place in the suburb of Chicago, which is called North Shore, and that is what their high shcool is named after, North Shore High School.


 * __**Gesellschaft**__- A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest.
 * The Plastics are friends because of their similar interests. Each of the girls are individuals, however they come together as one because they are so much alike. They are girly and they where the same clothes as each other, they are interested in talking about boys and drama, and those interests bring them together as one group.

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 * __**Ecology**__-The study of the interaction of living organisms and the natural environment.
 * In a way, the movie Mean Girls is a study of how girls interact in social settings. It is based off of the book Queen Bees and Wannabees, which was written by a sociologist that studied the actions of girls in their social environment. It really puts these social situations in perspective.
 * __**Migration**__- the movement of people into and out of a specified territory.
 * Cady and her parents lived in Africa because of her parent's occupations as zoologists. They moved to the United States when Cady was 16 years old. The moving out of Africa is referred to as emigration and the moving into the Unite States is considered as immigration.
 * __**Urbanization**__- the concentration of population into cities.
 * Every character in the movie lives in town and close to the school. No one really lives out in the country or anywhere else. For example, Cady went from living in the Safari to living in a little town. The result of urbanization is because of more opportunities are available in cities.
 * __**Gemeinschaft**__- a type of social organization in which people are closely tied by kinship and tradition.
 * The Plastics can be considered as an example of a gemeinschaft because of their traditions they have together as a group. For the winter talent show they always perform the same routine to the same song over and over again. This is considered as a tradition along with the fact that they have to wear the same color every day and also follow rules that are set within the group.