SOCI 1002 Lecture 11: WEEK 11 - Social Change - lecture/reading note
3 Apr 2016
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Demographers: social - scienti c analysts of human population. Study patterns in the human population, trying to understand why the size, geographical distribution, and social composition of human populations change over time. May focus on population characteristics such as overall growth and distribution of people, migration and immigration patterns, density, birth rates, death rates, marriage rates, prevalence and distribution of wealth, productivity, poverty, illness, crime, social services, and more. Results may also be differentiated across categories such as age, sex,race, educational attainment, and other potential variables. Populations can be compared at different levels (e. g. locla/municipal, regional, state, national, international) Trends mapped across a period of time may be used to try to predict future outcomes. Studying population growth > do you believe tat we in the midst of population explosion? (slide 5) // (graph slide 4) Fears of over-population: a famous early social historical viewpoint.
