This document provides an overview of the nature, scope, and importance of population studies. It discusses how population studies examines both the basic measurements of population change as well as the social processes and implications of demographic shifts. Population is defined as a group of social beings, while sociology studies society which is formed by populations. Population growth depends on the relationship between birth and death rates. Population studies help understand how factors influence population size, characteristics, and distribution. The scope of population studies is wide, examining population size, composition, distribution, and the relationships between population and factors like economic development, environment, and quality of life. Census data provides information to systematically study populations.

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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