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What
Counts When we Look at Numbers of People?
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Module
Introduction (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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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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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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