SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Urban Sociology, Gentrification, Natural Disaster
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Population: a group of people who live in a specified geographic area: changes in population occur as a result of fertility, mortality, and migration. Fertility: actual level of childbearing for an individual or a population: factors affecting utility include changed in number of available partners for sex/marriage, proportion of women in the workforce, and unemployment rates. Crude birth rate: number of live births per 1000 people in a population per given year. Crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 people in a population per given year. Infant mortality rate: number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1000 live births in a given year. Migration: movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purpose of changing residency. Pull factors (religious freedom, employment opportunities, better climate) draw involuntary immigrants. Push factors (war, famine, natural disaster) encourage people to relocate. Immigration: movement of people into a geographic area to take up residency.
