Demographics Flashcards
What are the common demographics?
Age, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and immigration status
Gender
Social construct that corresponds to the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with biological sex.
Gender inequality vs gender segregation
Inequality is the intentional or unintentional empowerment of one gender to the detriment to the other
Segregation is the separation of individuals based on perceived gender
Racialization
The definition or establishment of a group as a particular race
Racial formation theory
Posits that racial identity is fluid and dependent on concurrent political, economic and social factors
Race vs ethinicity
Race is based on phenotypic differences between groups of people
Ethnicity sorts people by cultural factors, including language, nationality, religion and other factors
Symbolic ethnicity
A specific connection to one’s ethnicity in which ethnic symbols and identity remain important, even when ethnic identity does not play a significant role in every day lift.
Fertility rate
Children per woman per lifetime
Birth rate
Children per 1000 people per year
Mortality rate
Deaths per 1000 people per year
Migration rate
Immigration rate minus emigration rate
Demographic transition
Specific example of demographic shift referring to changes in birth and death rates in a country as it develops from a preindustrial to industrial economic system
Malthusian theory
Focuses on how the exponential growth of a population can outpace the growth of the food supply and lead to social degradation and disorder
Social movements
Organized either to promote or to resist social change
Globalization
the process of integrating the global economy with free trade and the tapping of foreign markets
