SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
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Population a collectivity of people coexisting within clearly bound geographic category at a certain point in time. Time 1 and time 2 because of immigration. Human population is a dynamic aggregate (cid:0) people are moving in and out, dying and being born (ryder: the succession of generations: demographic metabolism: birth, death, in and out of immigration. Challenges of defining the boundaries of a population __. Demography is : work focuses on three core areas. Snapshot (ages, sex, marital status, spatial distribution) Understand the different processes that bear directly (birth, death, migration) Is demography a branch of sociology? (cid:0) it is multidisciplinary. Quantitative, application of math, planning and collection of demographic data. Population balancing formula: pop time 1, pop time 2: change = changes in fertility (born - die) + migration (in out)
