SOCI201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Luddite, Digital Divide, Natural Disaster
6 Dec 2016
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Chapters 14, 15 (health, medicine and the environment, social change) >> population picture of society and where we fit in by contextualizing our beliefs and. Sociological imagination provides us with a better understanding of the big. Primary means by which a population replaces its members from one generation to the next. Likelihood of each birth shaped by population dynamics beyond the desires of our biological parents. Demographers analyze trends in fertility: the number of children born in a given period of time. Crude birth rate: the number of live births per 1,000 people in: 2. Total fertility rate: measures the average number of children a the population in a given year. One variable in isolation is not sufficient to understand the full scope of population change. Easier to understand because already familiar with (cid:498)the average family has (cid:884). (cid:887) children(cid:499) Measures per woman regardless of family status.
