SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ernest Burgess, Thomas Robert Malthus, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Chapter 3 - population, urban life, and the environment. Are you lonesome tonight: article about people in vancouver and how when they move there, they cannot find friends because everyone already have their circle of friends. Introduction: what demography can tell us about cities the environment, and they way we organize. Cities are gemeinschaft - cities deprived people of a sense of belonging and community. Some think that cities open up more social connections. People in cities possess materiality - need food and need space: we need to see humans as material. Demography - study of population and relationship to environment. In large populations - housing is vertical - innovation - rapid transit: transition from nomadism to settlement. Population composition: make up of a population viewed in terms o its different social groups - men/women old/young. A healthy, long lived population will likely to have a higher human capital - skill/skill set usually including education/experiences that increase productivity.