SOCI 234 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Action, Peter Turchin, Senescence
6 Oct 2015
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Demography is the discipline whose primary concern is the rapid growth of human population. Paul ehrlich is the author of the book the population bomb (1968). An example of an aggregate measure is the birth rate which summarises the extent to which individual women in the population have given birth. Similarly, death rate can tell us how many people died over a specific time interval. Fertility, mortality, and migration are central to population change while other variables (e. g. age and sex) play an indirect role by acting on these three variables. The anticipation is that there will be relatively fewer entry-level workers as compared to older workers. Canada and certain other countries are faced by a situation in which the baby boom generation of workers are all slowly going into retirement and there will not be enough young people to replace those leaving the workforce. Population growth leads to urban expansion and agricultural lands are being taken over.
