SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Annie Besant

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC251
• Professor: Frank Trovato

Document Summary

For example, the experience of graduating high school in a given year is a collective experience of all who graduated, not an individual event. Populations are structured entities, have easily broken down characteristic segments. Like an orange but the pulp is people. Birth occurs to an individual birth rate is a characteristic of a population. Introduction to demographics: demography is the quantitative study of populations, and their growth, change, migration. Population is defined as a group of people in the same place at the same time, of sufficient size to model normal migration patterns, and with its numbers for the most part shaped by birth and death rates. Societal change is caused by population changes, which are caused attrition (birth and immigration) and accession (death and emigration). The age stru(cid:272)ture of a population (cid:894)aging, shrinking(cid:895), is (cid:272)reated (cid:271)y the (cid:862)natural in(cid:272)rease(cid:863), whi(cid:272)h is calculated by births-deaths.