SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 67: Menopause, Population Control, Infant Mortality
12 Jul 2018
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Humans throughout history have generally favored large families for the most part to assure survival of a particular family line or racial group. High death rates from plagues, predators, and wars led people to produce as many offspring as possible. Given this trend, the global population will exceed 6 billion in the early 2000s, and 8 billion by the 2020s. Understandably, sociologists around the world exhibit urgent concern about increases in the global population. Demography(from the greek word meaning (cid:1688)description of people(cid:1689)) is the study of human populations. The discipline examines the size and composition of populations, as well as the movement of people from locale to locale. Demographers also analyze the effects of population growth and its control. Several demographic variables play central roles in the study of human populations, especially fertilityand fecundity, mortality and life expectancy, and migration.
