SOC312H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Process Variable
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Challenges of defining the boundaries of a population. Formal demography and population studies: demography is Work focuses on three core areas: is demography a branch of sociology, book divides demography into. Population studies (table 1. 1 provides a typology: leaves this demarcation behind after this, leaves this demarcation behind after this point. In populations, 3 demographic processes fertility, mortality, and migration take place continuously. Individual action produces patterns and phenomena at the macro (aggregate) level. Demographic change at the maro level arises out of many individual/household behaviors, which are shaped by social behaviors, which are shaped by social environments, values, norms, institutional structures. Individual occupy multiple statuses (states) study of state transitions (e. g. divorce) Figure 1. 3 four representations of state transitions. Some social change can be seen as a. Some social change can be seen as a manifestation of demographic change. Examples increased longevity, widening sex differences in mortality, aging, low fertility.
