SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Rio De Janeiro, Mortality Rate, Malthusian Trap
Document Summary
Movie cidade de deus chronicles gang wars of the 1970s & 80s: each generation of drug traffickers starts younger than its predecessor, escaping poverty is possible. Brazil now as urbanized as canada of pop living in urban areas. Population growth is governed less by natural laws than by social forces: social forces are not only related to industrialization, but social inequality plays a major role. 40 yrs ago, sociologists believed that cities were alienating & anomic (normless: only an oversimplification. By 2100 pop 10 billion, pop will level off. We"re now in the midst of population explosion (fast & unstoppable horrifying events) Main purpose of demography why size, geographical distribution & social composition of human populations change over time. Equation of pop change: + b d + i e: = pop size @ a given time, = # of births. = pop size @ an earlier time.
