SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unified Modeling Language, Logistic Function, Exponential Growth
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Population and society lecture 4 age and sex structure. Interested in themes/ over numbers, need to be able to identify themes in course. Short answer and multiple choices: canadian population history: Canada has not been a unified country for long, have a regionalized society. Demographic transition in quebec and canada: quebec primarily catholic, catholicism has important implications for what is seen as appropriate in regards to fertility choices. Population of canada as growing consistently: steady and on the up, overall. Canada has increased its net migration over time, number of people entering over leaving. Depends on assumption of growth: linear, geometric, exponential, logistics. We see logistic growth in many populations, slow growth with momentum but reaches ceiling effect where leveling off occurs. Exponential growth for too long can lead to a crash, such as resources that can sustain a population: age structure diagram: Right side is female, left is male.
