SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Preventive Healthcare, Ocean Liner, Population Momentum
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New society chapter 17: population, aging and health. One of the most important features of any society is the number of people and the relative size of the various subgroups. When populations grow or shrink, and when subgroups change in relative size, serious repercussions follow. Aging is another key feature of the changing relative size of various subgroups of the population. While aging is a long-term phenomenon that has been taking place for more than a century, there are different stages which have different consequences. First aging largely involved fewer numbers of children. Changing sizes of age groups implied difficult accommodations in the school system, in a broad sense adults were freer, given that they had fewer children to care for. These changes both maximized the proportion of the population that was at an employable age and freed women from family preoccupations, encouraging them to participate in the labor force.
