US VS KOREA
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chapterfive.pptGeography, Demography, Ecology, and Society
Chapter Five
Space: The Final Frontier
- Why are certain cities located where they are?
Chicago? Detroit? Los Angeles? Miami?
- How does the environment shape a society’s culture?
Take for example a child who grows up in a rural setting verses an urban one. (what is normal)
- Geography: Focuses on the spatial interaction of human beings with each other and with their Natural Environment.
Critical Thinking Ex.
- Think for a moment how your environment has effected you.
- Perhaps a local park, school, business, or church has had a notable impression on you.
Stairs, an alley, a stoop, a fire escape, a bridge, rooftop
- What about the natural environment?
Trees, grass, plants, animals, lack of nature and open spaces.
- Are we more or less likely to interact with nature in the future?
Demography
- Demographers deal primarily with the study of the number and characteristics of a population.
- They focus on factors that may be causing the number to increase or decrease.
Health care and sanitation
Extent to which birth control is practiced
Availability of food and other resources
- Demographers count people on the basis of age, gender, marital status, occupation, income, nationality, and “race”.
Demography pt. II
- Two key determinants of the population of any country are the death rate and birthrate.
- These two determinants depend on the changes in the age composition of the world population and the rate of advances in medical science.
Balancing the Equation
- As the world’s death rate declines, the world population will increase unless birthrates also fall.
Developing countries have seen their populations increase because of the decline in death rates and a relatively slower decrease in birthrates.
- What are some contemporary social and economic forces that have made people aware of the death and birth rate?
Population Growth since the 1800’s
- The majority of population growth is a direct result of a decline of the death rate.
- Two factors are responsible for this:
Great advances in sanitation and health care
A rapid increase in the per capita output of both food and manufactured goods.
- Many social scientists view this increase as a result of the industrial revolution.
The great advances of science and technology.
The world began supporting larger populations at a higher standard of living than ever before.
Unequal population Growth
- In the late 19th century many of the less developed countries began to experience some of the benefits of modern science, industry, and transportation.
- This however, lowered their death rate, causing a surge in population growth much more substantial than in the U.S., Canada, or Europe.
- Often the increase in population in these areas occurred at the expense of standards of living.
Malnutrition, famine, sanitation, “curable diseases”
The Malthusian Theory
- Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and Church of England Clergyman.
- The Mathusian Theory: is a belief that a population tends to outrun the means of subsistence.
Populations can grow exponentially, where as food supplies only grow arithmetically.
- The Law of Diminishing Returns: if more and more people are employed on a given area of land, beyond a certain point average output per worker will shrink.
Is it possible for advances in technology to postpone this tendency indefinitely?
The Concept of Optimal Population
- What if the buss and train only came once every two hours?
- What if we all had to figure out how to heat our own houses?
- Often the over population of an area results in lower standards of living.
Shortage in farmlands, fuel, timber, metals, and other resources.
- However, in very thinly populated areas is it :
Difficult to enforce law and order.
Difficult to provide medical and hospital services
Difficult to provide schools
In-class Assignment
- Please open your book to page 91 in the 15th edition. Read the last two paragraphs above the section entitled “The Growth of population over Time”.
- When you are done with a partner, on one piece of paper answer the following questions.
1. Would you participate in a population control program like the one in China, if the natural resources were in danger? Why or Why not?
2. Give 3-5 original approaches to educating a population about birth control. For example what Thailand did in it’s educational campaign.
Food Inc.
Special Extra Credit
- This should be a full page double spaced with 12 point font relating the film to our class.
- Please use the film to help you develop your final projects.
Population Quality
- A variety of social scientists are concerned about the possibility that social forces would bring about a serious deterioration of the biological quality of human populations.
They fear that the danger would be greatest in the countries that have made the most social and economic progress.
Leading to A Possible Two Form Deterioration
A Possible Two Form Deterioration
- 1.) A decline of the physical quality and stamina of individuals, with an increasing incidence of physical defects.
It is easier for children who are weak or have physical disabilities to survive, mature, and have children of their own.
- 2.) A decline of native intelligence
The capacity for mental development
With the development of a two-income family, intelligent individuals will choose careers over marriage and family and have fewer children, leaving the “less advantaged and less educated” to bear the majority of the children.
Ecology: The Interaction of Geography, Demography, and Environment
- As Social Scientists we use our body as an instrument to measure our environments.
- Environment meaning the sum of all the external influences that impinge on the human organism.
These influences exert their effects through physical stimuli that produce sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and other bodily sensations. (we interpret this environment and react to it)
- Social Environment: is composed of the elements in our surroundings that are human or of human origin.
Depends chiefly on the culture of the group to which we belong
- Natural Environment: is composed of the nonhuman elements of our surroundings.
Climate, water, soil, topography, plant and animal life, and minerals and other natural resources. (Colton)
The Ecological Balance
- Ecology is concerned with the interactions between living things and their environment. (Human Ecology)
It considers the processes by which populations adapt to their surroundings.
- The Ecological Balance: is term referring to the state achieved when each plant or animal species, with its own characteristics and needs, has adjusted to its environment and survived, and is capable of preventing other species from crowding it out.
Wasted Ex.
Wasted:
the U.S vs. South Korea
- The U.S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aH7RwOD0RE&feature=youtu.be
- South Korea
Questions
How does each country perceive food and food waste?
Why might the two societies conceptualize food and food waste so differently?
Based on what we see in South Korea, do you think we can implemented similar programs here in the U.S? Why or Why not?
Briefly explain three ways waste management, can be developed as a new industry. For example, how can it provide jobs or other financial opportunities?
