Ecological disasters:
Disproportionately affect marginalized communities
demography
The study of the size, structure, distribution, and growth of the world’s population.
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Ecological disasters:
Disproportionately affect marginalized communities
demography
The study of the size, structure, distribution, and growth of the world’s population.
social demography
The effects of population changes on the organization of societies, and vice versa.
What do functionalists believe in population?
that birth and death rates work together to keep the population stable
Malthus Theorem, by Thomas Malthus argued that:
rapid population growth was dangerous for society, growing faster than food supply. creating famine and war.
What is the functionalist’s demographic transition?
Anti-Malthusians argue that society moves through 4 stages of population change
What is stage 1 of demographic industrialization?
pre-industrialization: both birth and death rates are high
What is stage 2 of demographic industrialization?
death rates slow while birth rates remain high
What is stage 3 of demographic industrialization?
birth rates slow to match death rates
What is stage 4 of demographic industrialization?
birth rates decline, creating a natural population shrinkage
Fertility rate
Number of births per woman of childbearing age in the population
Global fertility rate has _____ since 1964, showing that the anti-Malthsian perspective may be accurate
Declined
What is the feminist view on population?
the way to ensure that the world does not become overpopulated is to empower women, such as education economics, resources to give better care to children.
What is the symbolic interactionists study on population?
How the stages of demographic transition play out in individual lives, How these individual choices lead to larger systemic trends, How cultural beliefs and practices affect the size and structure of a population
What do symbolic interactionists argue on population?
that age categories are social constructions (seniority)
What is the conflict theorist’s view on population?
A population dynamics change, resource use and inequality shifts around the world, imbalances lead to conflict
Population changes occurs due to variations in:
Birth rate, death rate, net migration rate
Growth rate
The rate at which population size increases each year.
negative population growth
The rate at which population size declines.
The biggest population change in Canada related to the birth rate was the:
Baby boom
When did baby boom occur?
After WWII
Cohort
a group of people who share similar life experiences at similar times
Generation X
born between 1966 and 1971
Generation Y/Millennials
born between 1972 and 1992
Generation Z
born between 1993 - 2011
Baby boomers are aging. Younger age groups are too small to:
support the boomers through pension contributions
Mortality rates have been:
declining overall
Women have what kind of mortality rate compared to men?
Lower
Indigenous people (and lower SES) in Canada have lower life expectancies due to
Poverty and poor access to health care
migration
The number of people moving in and out of a region
net migration rate
The number of immigrants, minus the number of emigrants, per year per 1000 inhabitants.
internal migration
People moving from one region of a country to another. Patterns of internal migration are useful indexes of changing circumstances in various regions.
pull factors
All those factors that encourage people to move to a particular area (in relation to migration).
push factors
All those factors that encourage people to leave an area (in relation to migration)
Ethnic enclaves
residential areas where minority groups (mainly recent immigrants) settle. Can provide cultural comfort, may also contribute to isolation from the larger community
Environment sociologists study the interrelationship between
society and environmental concerns
Ecological Footprint
The impact of human activities measured in biologically productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated
The Natural Environment
refers to all living and non-living things that occur without human intervention
Most of the natural resources we consume are
non-renewable
Main sources of demand for water:
Agriculture
Production of energy
Industrial uses
Human consumption
What are the functionalists approach to the environment?
They are concerned about how climate change might disrupt social systems and infrastructure
What is the conflict theory approach to the environment?
Interested in how capitalism is a driving force of climate change; how the poor and vulnerable are vulnerable to climate change
What is the conflict theory concept of Treadmill of Production?
Argues that the capitalist economy drives decision-making, resulting in high extraction of natural resources high accumulation of waste, long-term resource depletion and waste dumping.
What is the conflict theory concept of Environmental Racism?
Examine the distribution of both resources and environmental hazards. Environmental challenges disproportionately affect the poor
What is the feminists approach to the environment?
They are particularly concerned with how climate change will negatively effect women – especially women in the developing world
Ecofeminism makes connections between:
The dominance of nature and the exploitation of women (men’s feminized nature)
What is the Symbolic Interactionists approach to the environment?
They are interested in how we perceive climate change and its effects
Our current era is referred to as the
Anthropocene - an era where human impact if the defining feature of the planet
Population plays a _____ role in environmental problems
small but important