SOC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 8 Seconds, Mortality Rate, Thomas Robert Malthus

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Population growth: primary social problem that results in secondary social problems (problems that result from a bigger problem). Infrastructure (housing/shelter, sewage, waste) problems: water problems in flint michigan, communities cannot build hospitals, houses, and schools fast enough. Contributes to international conflict: demography: study of population characteristics (birth rate, death rates, migration patterns, Gdp: fertility: wrong # of children born to a given population, fertility rate: children born for every 1000 females in their childbearing years (15- Fertility rate for us: 60 kids born for every 1000 women. b. ii. Mortality rate for us: 58. 2 people die for every 1000 people in the population. b. iii. Growth rate: 3. 3 million people (including migrants) b. iv. 322 million people in the us b. v. child born every 8 seconds, death every 13 seconds, migrant comes in every. 28 seconds, net gain of one person every 11 seconds. b. vi. We rank 3rd in highest population (between china & india) b. vi. 1.

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