SOCI 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Demographic Transition, Population Pyramid, Old Age
6 Feb 2017
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Age transition = shift from young pop (slightly more males than females) to older pop (more females than males) Interaction of fertility, mortality and migration produces age/sex structure. Pop processes produce age/sex structure and are affected by it. Society assigns social roles and organizes people into groups on basis of their age/gender (social component of sex) Sex is biological in nature, does not change (except by human intervention) Societies have separate sets of expected roles and obligations for people of different ages captured by concept of age stratification. Age stratification theory begins with proposition that age is basis of social differentiation in manner analogous to stratification by social class. Social mobility in age hierarchy is inevitable, universal and unidirectional in that individual can never grow younger . Aspects of human society that vary by age & sex. Age strata = identifiable, not viewed as fixed and unchanging.
