SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Life-Cycle Assessment, Bourgeoisie, Systems Theory
11 Feb 2015
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Urban sociology: a subfield of sociology that examines social relationships and political and economic structures in the city. Census metropolitan area (cma): a very large, urban are together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that urban area. Internal migration: movement within a geographical area: in 1867, 80% of people lived in rural areas; in 2013 52% live in urban areas. Factors: pull: reasons to go to another countries because of what is there, push: reasons to leave where you are (religious oppression etc) involuntary, slavery, religious oppression. Canada: most of the 33 million canadians are the descendants of immigrants. At various times and places, people from china, japan, and south asia could not come. Current policy: one of the most open in all the world. Demography: the subfield of sociology that examines populations size, composition, and distribution. Population: a group of people who live in a specific geographic area.
