SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inflection Point, Demographic Transition, Actor Model
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Population static and dynamic ways of looking at population. A group of people that coexist within the boundaries of a territory (could be a state, province, city) at a given point in time. Particular point in time, people living in a territory nation states. Human populations are constantly changing in size and composition (dynamic) demographic metabolism, the idea that this kind of dynamic idea of populations have continual processes of renewal, through fundamental dynamic processes. All populations are dynamic and influenced by people coming in (births), people leaving (deaths) In migration, and out migration net migration component of the demographic metabolism. Some countries have a very different metabolism some countries are dominated by net migration, and others are not. Human population is a dynamic aggregate existing within a defined boundary. The actual number of people within a city varies very greatly by status, time of day, day of the week, and the season.
