SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gated Community, Counterurbanization, Urban Sprawl
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Study of movement, shape, size of population itself. Slow population growth in canada, yet world-wide significant increase. World"s population of 7. 4 billion people in 2016; increases by 80 million people each year. By 2050, there will be over 9 billion people. Subfield of sociology examines population size, composition, distribution (spread out within country, continent, planet) Nature of population affects all aspects of social life. Increases or decreases in population have powerful impact on social, economic, political structures of societies (people to care for, etc. ) Demographers: define population as a group of people who live generally in a specified geographic area (usually around national boundaries or smaller jurisdiction) Changes in populations occur as a result of 3 processes: Migration (check migration patterns - not random) Population growth in human history = fairly stable given societies experienced consistently high birth rates and death rates (diseases, war, etc. )
