SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Fecundity, Total Fertility Rate
Document Summary
All humanly created physical objects and patterns of: thinking, feeling, behaving, that are passed down from one generation to another among members of a society. Counter culture- a way of life that is predominantly different and opposed to the way of mainstream society. The population of the us is 315 million. The population of the world is 7. 06 billion. There are three factors affecting population growth: birth. Fecundity- a women"s biological potential for reproduction: death. Life expectancy- potential number of years a person can be expected to live based on year of birth. Longevity- ability to resist death from year to year. Lifespan- oldest age to which members of a species can survive. First year of life is the greatest risk of death: migration. More than half of the people admitted as legal permanent are already living in the us under. Relatives- 63% of immigrants: mexican permanent resident could expect to wait 7 years for their spouse and children.
