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What
Counts When we Look at Numbers of People?
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Introduction
to the Module (Hub)
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Documents
Included in the Module
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Demography
is about people, numbers of people.
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| Strictly speaking, demography
is not sociological in the sense of being human ideas
and patterns of behaviour. |
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It is closely related to sociology,
however, in that the number of people in a society or community as well
as changes in numbers, rates of change, |
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and the same applied to selected categories
of people such as age and sex, are all closely related to ideas and behaviour,
ie to sociology and society.
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| A population size and
its changes, for example, are a product of birth, death and migration,
all which are affected by values and patterns of behaviour. |
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This short module has two documents
in it, one on introducing demography, the other describing a useful tool
for both the sociologist and the community mobiliser, the age pyramid. |
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Migration changes the size of a resident
population.
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| My PhD dissertation looked
at the social ramifications of people migrating, yet maintaining social
ties to their communities of origin. |
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The resulting “diaspora” is very
different depending on whether or not those ties are kept and remain operational.
See the dissertation abstract. |
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| Note:
We see “sociological”
as not being about people, but about their ideas and behaviour. Culture
is not human beings, but is “carried” by
human beings. |
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