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- Sociology
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Education Standards
Population and Urbanization
Population Growth and Decline
Population Health: Crash Course Sociology (Video)
“U.S. women are postponing motherhood, but not as much as those in most other developed nations” by Gretchen Livingston
“World Population Pyramid”, World Life Expectancy
Explain the concepts of fertility, mortality, and migration, and how they affect population size.
Overview
OER Text material
Population and Urbanization
Population Growth and Decline
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, 19.1 (Population and Urbanization) & 19.2.1 (Population and Growth Decline). 19.1 introduces the population shift in Michigan and provides an overview of consequences that come from population declines. 19.2.1 provides concise definitions of the concepts. It also has a good explanation of population growth, and how demographers use knowledge of the concepts to make predictions about population growth. This section also includes global and U.S. population statistics from 1950 to predictions in 2050.
Supplementary Material (Videos and Reading)
Population Health: Crash Course Sociology (Video)
This video focuses on factors that influence population growth and decline. Video Summary: “We’re continuing our unit on health with a discussion of some of the indicators that help us measure health for different populations. We’ll also explore three contributors to health disparities: individual factors like genetics, physical factors like pollution, and social factors like stress.”
“Middle (Aged) Kingdom" by Deborah Carr
Contexts Vol. 7, Iss. 3, August 2008, pp. 52-53 (NOTE: Available via OhioLINK). This short article reviews the consequences stemming from China’s one-child policy, including sex imbalance, economic problems and elder care crisis.
“U.S. women are postponing motherhood, but not as much as those in most other developed nations” by Gretchen Livingston
Pew Research Center: FactTank. June 28, 2018. Compares U.S. women with other developed nations to find that on average, women in the U.S. are becoming mothers later, but not as late as other developed nations. U.S. women are also having more children than women in other developed nations.
Data
“World Population Pyramid”, World Life Expectancy
This animated population pyramid shows the population distribution by age from 1950 to 2050 (predicted). Students can select different countries to view.