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sociology chapter 19
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/22/2010

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age-adjusted death rate
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the number of deaths occurring at each age for each sex per 1000 people of that age who are living
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age-sex composition
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teh number of men and women in the population along with their ages
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census
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an official count of the number of people in a given area
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demographic transition
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change from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates with a period of rapid population growth
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demography
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statistical study of population , esp datat on birth, death, marriage, health and migration rates.
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ecology
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the study of the interrelationships between living organisms and the environment
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emigration
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movement of people out of an area
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fegundity
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a womans potential for bearing children
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fertility
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measure of the rate at which people are being born
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going green
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people who are mindful of what they consume mindful of others, they want want to conserve energy
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immigration
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movement of people into an area.
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malthusian theory
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theory stating that population expands much faster than the food supply resulting in starvation for much of the population
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marriage squeeze
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the effects of an imbalance between the number of males and females in the prime marriage ages due to rising of falling birth rates and the median age differences at marriage
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migration
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movement of people in or out of an area
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mortality
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rate at which people die
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neo-malthusim theory
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theory that was revised about food production and population growth that include more info such as taking into account the effects of technology
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pull factors
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natural or social factors that cause people to move into and area
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push factors
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factors that cause people to move out of an area
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vital statistics
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records of all births, deaths and their causes, marriages, divorces, and certain diseases in a society
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zero population growth
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population policy that encourages parents to have no more than 2 kids to limit the growth of population
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