SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Birth Rate, Voluntary Childlessness, Thomas Robert Malthus
30 Oct 2018
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The study of populations at a macro-scale. At its most basic: understanding the ways populations grow, shrink and otherwise change. Relationships between population and other sociological factors. Can be at level of city, province, country or planet (in practice, often national scale) Three factors affecting the changes in population size. Number of children born in a given time period per 1,000 of population. Average number of children that a woman would have over her lifetime, assumed by current rated by age. Number of deaths in a given time period over 1,000 population. Infant mortality (number of children who die within a year of birth, per. Immigration is migration into a country, emigration is migration out of a country. Total rate of change over a time period (+ or -) Picture of the shape of an entire population. Increased from 1. 6 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in. Based on the concept of thomas robert.
