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 * ** Metropolis: A large city that dominates an urban area socially and economically. **
 * ** The setting of the Mentalist i **** s Sacramento, California. This city can be classified as a **[[image:city.jpg width="284" height="180" align="right"]]** metropolis because of its large population and size. **
 * ** Gesellschaft: A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest. **
 * ** The employees **** of the CBI are an example of Gesellschaft because the bonds that they hold are not as strong as a families and their main motive is for self-interest, they are not generally involved in each other's personal lives. **
 * ** Suburbs: Urban areas beyond the political boundaries of a city. **
 * ** The CBI sometimes travels to the surrounding areas of Sacramento in order to solve all the cases that could affect Sacramento. **


 * __﻿Natural Environment__: Earth's surface and atmosphere, including living organisms, air, water, soil, and other resources necessary to sustain life
 * In one episode Agent Rigsby and Agent Cho must travel through the forest on the mountains in order to find more clues for the case. During this adventure they experience soil, a lake, many trees and shrubbery.
 * __Mortality__: the incidence of death in a country's population
 * In just about every episode the United States deals with mortality because someone has been murdered.


 * __Urbanization__: the concentration of population into cities
 * The CBI's investigations are always in a city. Rarely do they have to go out into the country or outside city limits to investigate the crimes.