SOC 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sedentism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Overgrazing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3105
• Professor: Maaz Gardezi

Document Summary

Soc 3105 (fall 2020): population growth and the environment. Hummel reading: structural human ecology (she) = conceptualizes the relationships between society & the enviro as the human ecosystem that comprises 4 interacting components: pop, social organization, enviro & tech. It emphasizes the role of pop size, growth, density, & structure in explaining enviro impacts. Biophysical factors such as biogeography & climate also considered important contextual factors conditioning social structural drivers of enviro impacts (p: natural resources & their users are major components in the process of resource utilization for particular purposes. Resources comprise the material, organic & spatial structures that are relevant for supply systems (e. g. , for food, water, or energy). Users = an integral part of supply systems. Users refer to actors & actor constellations, including producers & consumers. Users of supply systems are, however, not identical w/ a pop; each group of users must be analyzed for a specific supply system (p. 498)