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-The '''“Hundredth Monkey Effect”''' is a supposed [[phenomenon]] in which a learned behaviour spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. By generalisation it means the instant, paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability. The story behind this supposed phenomenon originated with Lawrence Blair and Lyall Watson, who claimed that it was the observation of Japanese scientists. One of the primary factors in the promulgation of the myth is that many authors quote secondary, tertiary or post-tertiary sources who have themselves misrepresented the original observations.+In [[sociology]], a '''tipping point''' or [[angle of repose]] is the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common. The phrase was coined in its sociological use by [[Morton Grodzins]], by analogy with the fact in [[physics]] that adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object can cause it to suddenly and completely topple.
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-*[[meme]]+Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the [[white (people)|white]] families remained in the neighborhood as long as the comparative number of [[black (people)|black]] families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when "one too many" black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out ''en masse'' in a process known as [[white flight]]. He called that moment the "tipping point". The idea was expanded and built upon by [[Nobel Prize]]-winner [[Thomas Schelling]] in 1972. A similar idea underlies [[Mark Granovetter]]'s threshold model of collective behavior.
-*[[Tipping point (sociology)]]+==See also==
 +* [[Catastrophe theory]]
 +* [[Critical mass]]
 +* [[Domino effect]]
 +* [[Emergence]]
 +* [[Hundredth Monkey Effect]]
 +* [[Network effect]]
 +* [[Saddle-node bifurcation]]
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In sociology, a tipping point or angle of repose is the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common. The phrase was coined in its sociological use by Morton Grodzins, by analogy with the fact in physics that adding a small amount of weight to a balanced object can cause it to suddenly and completely topple.

Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families remained in the neighborhood as long as the comparative number of black families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when "one too many" black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called that moment the "tipping point". The idea was expanded and built upon by Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Schelling in 1972. A similar idea underlies Mark Granovetter's threshold model of collective behavior.

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