SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Risk Society, Harm Reduction, Social Inequality
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Soc 103 lecture 2: cities, populations and environments. Demography: flow of people in societies, places etc. Big social units work differently than small units. Heterogeneous social units are different than homogeneous: i. e. One classroom where everyone has the same background vs. one with people of several backgrounds histories and ethnicities etc: you will see the difficulty in creating activities etc. The same is true for all social units. The science of demography theorizes how the composition of the population affects how society works: populating size, population change (via births deaths migrations, population composition, how population change affects size and composition. * 6% of all people who have ever lived are still alive today. Population growth is an issue in many societies. Overpopulation: what size is too big for the world, nobody has really answered, to demographers this is a stupid question. Demographers don"t think population size works in that way.
