Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Georg Simmel, Personality Disorder, Water Scarcity
26 Apr 2017
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Chapter 15 population, urbanization and the environmental crisis. Population growth: growth rates vary among nations, high income nations have lower population growth rates. Population all the people living in a specified geographic area. Demography the study of the size, composition, and distribution of populations. Three primary factors that affect the rate of population growth in any natio(cid:374) o(cid:396) a(cid:396)ea : fertility, mortality, migration. Mortality the number of deaths that occur in a specific population: this number has declined in high in(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of , vaccinations. Infant mortality rate the number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births in a given year. Net migration the net number of migrants: used to determine the effects of immigration and emigration, formula: total immigrants total emigrants in a given year. Population composition the biological and social characteristics of a population. Includes age, sex, racialization, marital status, education, occupation, income and size of household.
