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1. Nature, scope & importance of Population studies Prof. Melissa C Remedios

2. Meaning Population is the group of social being whereas sociology is the study of society, formed of population. Population growth is depend on the relationship between birth rate and death rate Society-collection of people that is self-sustaining, has long duration, and shares a way of life; a population and its social organization and all that this implies; the social system. Ethnomethodologists argue that there is no such thing as a society -people define their own "society"

3. Understanding population The study of population covers not only basic measurements of population change, but also analysis of the roots and ramifications of those changes. Sociologists approach the study of population by focusing on the social processes and implications of demographic change. If the public hears that the marriage is waning as an institution, sociologists of population will seek not only to define a marriage rate, but ask how adequate it is for measuring family formation and examine what social factors make it change. They apply a similar lens to fertility, mortality, migration and the processes that cause variation in their occurrence. To address such questions, graduate training in the population cluster focuses on grounding students in both sociological theory and statistical methodology.

4. Relationship of population & society Population is the group of social being whereas sociology is the study of society, formed of population. Population growth is depend on the relationship between birth rate and death rate. population studies helps us understand the processes that influence the size, growth, characteristics, and distribution of human population. By analyzing birth rates, death rates, immigration patterns and actuarial tables of life expectancy, we hope to explain past trends and accurately predict the future.

5. Relationship between population & Society Population is very closely linked to the economic development of a society. The quantity, quality, structure, distribution, and movement of a population can help or hinder the rate of economic development. A developed country with low population density and a low percentage of employable people needs an increase in population in order to keep up with economic development. Man is a producer as well as a consumer, and in order to balance the rate of production and the rate of consumption, a certain poulation level must be maintained.

6. Contd: . The status of the economy determines the appropriate level. Population policy must be developed according to the following guidelines: 1) it must be based on the society's economic development; 2) since economy and population are closely related, they must both be worked on at the same time; and 3) both the quantity and quality of life of the population must also be worked on at the same time. Dealing with the relationship between population and the economic development of a society properly can bring about rapid improvement in the economic development and standard of living of that society.

7. Nature of the Population studies Population studies helps and enables us to be aware of the process and consequence of population growth on the quality of our lives and the environment. The child gets andopportunity to investigate and explore the interaction between the population and theirenvironments, population characteristics, the meaning, the nature of process. The child also knows the causes and consequences of population increase at the local. national level. It ismultidisciplinary concept and related to number of subjects. It neither provides norprescribes any contraceptive education or any other measures to limit the size of the family

8. Characteristics: Size of the population: In connection with size, the study is taken which deals with such problems asto how many people live in a given population group, what changes are taking placein the size of the group and how these changes are affected . Composition: It covered all the measurable characteristics of the people who form agiven population. The composition of two groupsare differs number of ways. The characteristics must be effectively related to demographic processes and that thesemust be relevant to his attempt to understand certain specific aspects of national life.Age,and sex are most widely used characteristics ofpopulation study. Distribution: Population distribution study is concerned with such matters as to howis the people distributed and what is the nature of changes in population distribution

9. Subject Matter and Scope of the population studies The scope ofpopulation studies is quite wide. Population study provides the learners with aknowledge and understanding of the prevailing population situation in their own countryand the world. It also creates an awareness among the learners about the inter-relationshipsbetween population situation in their own country and the world. It assists us to makeconscious rational and informed decisions regarding family size and population matters inthe community and policy adopted by the Sate. It equips us with necessary knowledge,skills, attitudes, values to ascertain and evaluate the impact of population change both interms of the students future, welfare and the welfare of their community, society, nation andthe world. Population studies the nature, causes, changes, characteristics, co-operation anddistributional aspects of human population. It studies the relationships of man with hisenvironment along with his quality of lif

10. Conclusion Population Studies – Through Census The census is carried out to study the population systematically. The first modern census to study the population was conducted in America in 1790. This was followed in Europe in the early 1800s. The British government started conducting censuses in India between 1862-72. Since 1881, the census has been conducted in India regularly. It was a decennial census, meaning it was conducted once every ten years. Since India gained independence, the census has been conducted once every 10 years, starting from 1951. The last census in India was conducted in 2011. It was supposed to be conducted in 2021, but it was not feasible due to the global pandemic. The Indian census is considered to be the largest in the world.

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