Demographics Flashcards
(25 cards)
Dependency ratio
People who are dependent (old and young) divided by people who contribute to society
Age stratification
Look at age as indicator of generation activity
Life course theory
Biological processes and how they affect social processes.
You can tell someone’s age by number, but by actions, state
Activity theory
How old generations view themselves
Old people need to do things to make up for lost jobs
Disengagement theory
Old people and society separate
Continuity theory
People and society adapt to age
Race
Physical differences
Culturally defined
Ethnicity
Shared language,history, cultural factor
Socially defined
Pleuralism
Encourages diversity
Sex
Biological.
Identity and expression
How I see myself
How I present myself
GENDER
Orientation
Who I’m attracted to
Morisntation
Urban decline
People move out of city too fast, falls apart
Urban renewal
Redoing falling apart areas are redone however it’s largely subjected to rich folk, moving poor folk out.
(Leads to gentrification)
Gentrification
As city costs rise, middle class moves into the under maintained areas, causing the lower class to move further out of town.
Population dynamics
Fertility
Migration: immigration, emigration
Mortality
Growth/death: # in 1yr/1000 people
Demographic transition
Shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as country becomes industrialized
Globalization
Sharing everything through trade, communication
Cultural and economic merging
Social movements
Encouraging Change in society (progressive) or resisting change (regressive)
World systems theory (Globalization)
Core countries: totally independent
Semi periphery countries
Periphery countries: totally dependent
Modernization theory (Globalization)
Every country follows the same trend in development
Dependency theory (Globalization)
3rd world countries will remain so because of their disadvantages
Hyperglobalist (view of Globalization)
Individual countries will matter less. Word will become increasingly globalized
Skeptic (Globalization)
Think that the world is becoming more regionalized (transnational organizations, they’re still tied into original country)
