SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Isle Royale National Park, Carrying Capacity, Chinese Immigration To Mexico

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Thomas malthus- wrote a book on population: it was easy to create new people but not easy to create new crops, starvation was going to eventually hit us. Carrying capacity at isle royale national park: moose population, wolves eat the old and feeble moose, as the moose population grows, so does the wolf population. Industrialization spurred global population growth: why has population suddenly increased, population is likely to level out during our generation and eventually probably decline, population change increase or decrease, natural change, births, deaths, net migration, gross immigration, gross emigration. Demographic transition: colonial america, high birth rates because there are very high death rates, death rates started to go down, more food was produced, vaccinations, advancements in medicine, birth rates stayed high because it was routine, population increases. Population: people moved to cities, having big families was a burden financially, led to smaller families, birth rate falls because the death rate fell.