SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erving Goffman, Malthusianism, Stamen
18 Sep 2020
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Learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors to match new situation: usually mild, such as starting a new job or getting a new boss, sometimes intense, such as boot camp or moving to a different country. Gender messages in the mass media: toys we buy for kids/ adult ads such as axe, calvin klein, and victoria"s secret, television & movies, video games. Demography- the scientific study of human population dynamics: demographers analyze populations in terms of size, composition, distribution, and why they change. Population- a group of people who share a geographic territory. Fertility- the number of babies born in a given period of time in a particular society. Crude birth rate- number of live births per 1,000 people in population (year) Total fertility rate (tfr)- average number of children a woman could have in her child-bearing years (15-44 or 15-49) Replacement level of fertility rate- tfr of 2. 1.
