Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 81: World-Systems Theory, Urban Renewal, Core Countries

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Urbanization: movement of people from farms to cities: functionalist perspective: cities are good and bad for a society. They are centers of culture/diversity and crime: conflict theory: sources of inequality where the elite use the poor for their resources to enrich their own lives. You need to join small communities to make friends/connections. Population dynamics: how population grows and shrinks over time. We look at years" worth of population change at a time: fertility: rate people are born into a population. Increase population: migration: two factors emigration(moves out, lowers population) and immigration (move in, adds to population) Reasons for migration: refuge, work, live in a different countries: mortality: rate at which people are dying. Deaths decrease population: look at population pyramid to look at population of a country. Looks at # of people of each age group there are. Expansive pyramids: lots of deaths and lots of births. Lots of young people not many old people.