SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Movement For The Survival Of The Ogoni People, Doubling Time, Key Demographic

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Karen M.Kampen

Document Summary

Pressures on natural resources and the environment: food security, energy needs, water needs, pollution, environmental degradation, smog affects lungs, urbanization, housing. Global snapshot: highest birth rate is in africa, but its life expectance is the lowest, north americas life expectancy is the highest. Mortality: the incidence of death in a society"s population: often refer to life expectance instead, remaining life expectance: how much time do you have left essentially. 2: figure to the right is life expectancy at birth (2012 estimates) on the right , net migrations are on the left below: Key population trends: mortality rates are decreasing, fertility rates are decreasing, population growth rates has gone down, let"s examine competing theories. Demographic transition theory (figure 15-3: we are on the way but it will take a while. The social roots of environmental issues and course wrap up. Outline for today: the social roots of environmental problems, two questions, the sociological perspective.