SOCI 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Total Fertility Rate, Thomas Robert Malthus, Planned Obsolescence

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Also referred as the total fertility rate. Low in canada, we mainly grow because of immigration. Crude birth rate: the number of live births in a given year for every 1000 people in a population (ibid). Measuring live births per population (per 1k people) Demography: the study of the causes and consequences of population growth . Key area in sociology, look at population growth, decline, and patterns (marriage, children per couple etc) Look at local and global population (pop of the world is 7. 4b) Ask and answer questions about overpopulation, falling fertility, birth rate, Total birth rate: an indication of the reproductive patterns of women of childbearing. Death rate: number of deaths in a given year per 1000 people (ibid, p. 322) Infant mortality rate: number of deaths of children less than one year of age per 1000 live births in the same year (ibid) Can tell us about population rate and growth.