SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gentrification, Chauncy Harris, Edge City
11 Dec 2016
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Us + world = about 8 per 1000. Changes in fertility, mortality, and migration affect the pop. composition. International vs internal -immigration vs emigration -pull/voluntary vs push/involuntarily. Demography: subfield of sociology that examines population size, composition and distribution. Fertility: actual level of childbearing for an individual or a population -based on bio and social factors. Crude birth rate: # of live births per 1000 people in a population in a given year. Mortality: the incidence of death in a population. Crude death rate: # of death per 1000 people in a population in a given year. Migration: the movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purpose of changing residency. Provisions on the immigration bills 1)securing the border 2)path to citizenship 3)interior enforcement. Composition: the bio and social characteristics of a population, including age, sex, race, marital status, edu, jobs, income and size of household.
