Chapter 13 Flashcards
Birth cohort
Set of people who were born during the same era and who face similar societal circumstances brought about by their shared position in the overall age structure of the population
Age structure
Population’s balance of old and young people
Cohort effect
Phenomenon in which members of a birth cohort tend to experience a particular life course event or rite of passage–puberty, marriage, childbearing, graduation, entry into the workforce, death– at roughly the same time
Demographer
Sociologists who studies trends in population characteristics
Migration
Movement of populations from one geographic area to another
Period effect
Phenomenon in which a historical event or major social trend contributes to the unique shape and outlook of a birth cohort
Urbanization
Process by which people leave rural areas and begin to concentrate in large cities