Study Guide: Population

Glossary:
Look these words up in the Glossary of Social Science; study them and be ready for fill-ins on the next exam:

fecundity	exponential growth	density
doubling time	dependency theory	infant mortality rate
demographic transition	Malthusianism	crude birthrate
demography	zero population growth	immigration
migration	crude deathrate	emigration
fertility	air pollution	carrying capacity
mortality rate	eutrophication	life expectancy

 

Please Note:

 

Names to Know:

T. Robert Malthus  

Practice Quiz

 

Essay Questions:

Bibliography:

Brown, Lester R. Nicholas Lenssen, and Hal Kane.  1995.  Vital Signs:  The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future 1995-1996.  The WorldWatch Institute.

Brubaker, W. (ed.)  1989.  Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Europe and North America. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

Bulatao, R. and Lee, R. (eds)  1983. Determinants of Fertility in Developing Countries.  2 vols. New York: Academic Press.

Cardoso, F. H. and Faletto, E.  1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America.  Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Hardoy, J. E. and Satterthwaite, D.  1989.  Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World. London: Earthscan Publications.

Heilbroner, Robert.  [1974] 1980.  An Inquiry Into the Human Prospect, Updated and Reconsidered for the 1980s.  New York:  W.W. Norton.

Shryrock, H. and Siegel, J.  1976.  The Methods and Materials of Demography.  New York: Academic Press.

Sklair, L.  1991.  Sociology of the Global System.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

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