Lists Of Contents Tagged With "Social"
The first steps towards globalization were taken in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Portuguese and Spanish Empires reached to all corners of the world. Globalization became a business phenomenon in the 17th century when the first multinational was founded in the Netherlands. During the Dutch Golden Age ...
Alex MacGillivray (2006), in his book, “A Brief History of Globalization,” states: “The planet we live in is now an incredible shrinking planet.” This, of course, is a metaphor, a figurative language to dramatize the fact that time and geographical distance between countries and among people are no longer barriers that separate men and ...
Sociologists are also interested in studying the sources of social change, more specifically, where change comes from. For instance, what internal and external social forces worked towards the return to democracy or the Marcos dictatorial regime in the Philippines? What pressures, events or phenomenon influenced the transformation of a once traditional and sleepy town into a ...
It has been long recognized as a fact that the most striking characteristic of the world we live in is CHANGE – constant, accelerating and ubiquitous! Change is a fact of life. Everything is subject to change over time, like the cycle of life and death, of war and peace, of rise and ...
The result of these three patterns – births, deaths, and migration – can be seen in the population pyramid. Population pyramid refers to two-dimensional graph used to display the age and gender structure of a population. If the birth rate is high as it is today in the Philippines and other developing countries, the pyramid will be more ...
Population change occurs as growth or decline. Sociologists enumerate three variables or components: fertility (births), mortality (deaths) and migration (immigration and emigration). The combination of these variables has resulted in changes in the demographic structure, influencing the social, economic, and political structure of the society.
Demographers often employ the analogy of the bathtub in explaining how ...
The study of population is of major concern to sociologists and social scientists. To sociologists, population is the number of persons occupying a certain geographic area, drawing substance from their habitat, and interacting with one another.
Demographers commonly define population as a collective group of individuals occupying a particular place at a given time. Three key words are involved ...
Amos Hawley (1901) advanced the different ecological processes which account for the changes in towns and cities.
Urban ecological processes refer to patterns of physical changes in the city and the way the people adapt to the changing urban environment. These processes include:
1. Concentration – It refers to the increase of the population in a given ...
The rural-urban differences are shown by indices such as culture, occupation, geography and other political, religious and social indices.
| RURAL | URBAN | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Culture | homogeneous, simple | heterogeneous, complex |
| 2. Occupation | Generally fishing, farming, food gathering, cottage industries. | Non-fishing, non-farming, professions, skilled and semi-skilled, sales and servicing, business and commercial pursuits, and white collar jobs ... |
There are different definitions and connotations of community. To the layman, a community is a place where one resides, works, and carry on his daily routines of life. To Olsen (1968), a community is a social organization that is territorially socialized and through which its members satisfy most of their daily needs and deal with ...
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