SOCI 121 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Mortality Rate, Hiv, Socioeconomic Status
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Demographic perspectives: two ways to think about population change, aggregate approach: what are the components of population change, deals with macrosocial processes, childbearing, mortality, and population movement result in growth or decline of population. Individual decisions affect migration: ecological or structural factors influence demographic outcomes. Anthropology, psychology, political science, and statistics on population thinking: validity: an indicator, such as a demographic measure, is intended to accurately represent some underlying concept. The validity of a measure is the extent to which it accurately represents the underlying concept. In us, demography is not considered separate discipline. Key terms:9: more developed region (mdr): includes all countries of europe, northern america (us, canada, bermuda, greenland, and saint pierre and miquelon), australia, new. Zealand, and japan: less developed region (ldr): includes all other countries in the world, population growth rate: the number per 1,000 population by which a population grows in a year.
