SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Population Connection, Cornucopian, Infant Mortality
13 Dec 2017
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Fertility rate: a measure noting the number of children born within a society. Mortality rate: a measure of the number of people who die. Population composition: a snapshot of the demographic profile of a population. Population pyramid: a picture of population distribution by sex and age. Malthusian theory: three factors that would control human population that exceeded the earth"s carrying capacity. Carrying capacity: how many people can live in a given area. Positive checks (three factors): war, famine, disease considering the amount of available resources. Countered positive checks ; also control the population but by reducing fertility rates. Technological increases in food production have increased both the amount and quality of calories we can produce per person. Human ingenuity has developed new medicine to curtail death from disease. The development and widespread use of contraception and other forms of family planning have decreased the speed at which our population increases.
