SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Baby Boom, Population Pyramid, Immigration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Demography: slow population growth in canada but a world-wide increase. Iife expectancy: average lifetime of people born a specific year (81 in can) Emigration: movement of people out of an area. Immigrants have higher unemployment rates and lower incomes. Lack of canadian job experience, lack of contacts to get a job, failure to recognize foreign language, qualifications and experience, language problems and discrimination. Population pyramid: graphic representation of a population by sex and age. Baby boom: dramatic increase after second world war: effects: Baby bust: fall in birth rates from 1966: effects: Products and services developed to cater to older market. Overall: requires increased medical services, government has changed. Malthusian perspective: unchecked population will outstrip food supply (population: geometric growth, food: arithmetic growth) Positive check: mortality risk (famine, disease, war) Shortage of food is because of exploitation of workers. Demographic transition: process from high to low death rates from technology.