Chapter 13

Question 1

age structure

Answer 1

a population’s balance of old and young people

Question 2

birth cohort

Answer 2

set of people who were born during the same ear and who ace similar societal circumstances brought about by their shared position in the overall age structure of the population

Question 3

cohort effect

Answer 3

phenomenon in which members of a birth cohort tend to experience a particular life course event or rite of passage (puberty, marriage, childbearing, graduation, entry to the workforce, death) at roughly the same age

Question 4

demographer

Answer 4

sociologist who studies tend in population characteristics

Question 5

migration

Answer 5

movement of populations from one geographic to another

Question 6

period effect

Answer 6

phenomenon in which a historical event or major social trend contributes to the unique shape and outlook of a birth cohort

Question 7

urbanization

Answer 7

the process by which people leave rural areas and begin to concentrate in large cities