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Factors that impact population include birthrates, mortality rates, and migration, including immigration and emigration. There are numerous potential outcomes of the growing population, and sociological perspectives vary on the potential effect of these increased numbers. The growth will pressure the already taxed planet and its natural resources.\r\n<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Understand demographic measurements like fertility and mortality rates<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Understand the difference between an internally displaced person, an asylum-seeker, and a refugee<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe a variety of demographic theories such as Malthusian, cornucopian, zero population growth, and demographic transititon theories<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Reading: Demography and Population<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reading: Demographic Theories<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Self-Check: Demography and Population<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Describe demographic measurements, read population graphs, and describe demographic theories<\/h2>\n<p>Scholars understand demography through various analyses; Malthusian, zero population growth, cornucopian theory, and demographic transition theories all help sociologists study demography. The earth\u2019s human population is growing quickly, especially in peripheral countries. Factors that impact population include birthrates, mortality rates, and migration, including immigration and emigration. There are numerous potential outcomes of the growing population, and sociological perspectives vary on the potential effect of these increased numbers. The growth will pressure the already taxed planet and its natural resources.<\/p>\n<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand demographic measurements like fertility and mortality rates<\/li>\n<li>Understand the difference between an internally displaced person, an asylum-seeker, and a refugee<\/li>\n<li>Describe a variety of demographic theories such as Malthusian, cornucopian, zero population growth, and demographic transititon theories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading: Demography and Population<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Demographic Theories<\/li>\n<li>Self-Check: Demography and Population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-362\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Objectives and Activities. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Sociology 2e. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: OpenStax CNX. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Objectives and Activities\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Sociology 2e\",\"author\":\"OpenStax CNX\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d\/Introduction_to_Sociology_2e\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/02040312-72c8-441e-a685-20e9333f3e1d@3.49\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b6910fd2-d623-42c0-8efb-84b885b1b253","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-362","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":360,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions\/2189"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/360"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-introsociology-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}