SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Census Geographic Units Of Canada, Urban Sociology, Demographic Transition
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Slow populaion growth in canada yet world wide a signiicant growth. World populaion increases 80 million every year. Virtually all this growth will come in lower income naions, not evenly distributed across the world. The populaion in many high income naions will likely decrease over this period. Demography: the subield of sociology that examines populaion size, composiion, and distribuion. Demography is important because the nature of populaion afects all aspects of social life. Increases or decreases in populaion have a powerful impact on the social, economic and poliical structures of socieies. Populaion: demographers deine populaion a group of people who live in a speciied geographic area. Changes in populaion occur as a result of three processes. Migraion (movement from one place to another) Populaion issues and urban growth: the demographic transiion. For much of human history populaion growth was fairly stable given socieies experienced consistently high birth rates and death rates. War a major reason, of individual passing away.
