SOC 102 Lecture 7: "The Forest and the Trees" Chapter 4: Population and Human Ecology
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Sociology always happens some place and involves some number of people. The staisical study of human populaions, especially paterns of birth, death, migraion. How people enter a system (birth, migraion) How people leave a system (death, migraion) Connecion between these dynamics and paricular groups. Ex: women have a lower death rate than men, white people longer life span than black people: efects of numbers of people on social dynamics. Ex: impact of rising or declining birth rates. Ex: the shit from ireplaces to central air condiioning. Ex: the arrangement of classrooms to reinforce structure.
