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The social aspects of population changes have in general received less attention than their economic or biological aspects. In many studies, however, the population is divided into a number of social status groups1 or into socio-economic groups2 according to occupation, income, education or similar indices of economic status. The term social class3 has a sociological connotation which is only approximated by the type of grouping generally used in demographic work. The division of society into a number of such groups is called social stratification4. Movement between different social status groups is called social mobility5. Different societies show different degrees of social mobility, and demographers have studied the relation between social mobility and certain demographic variables.

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The study of occupational mobility1 is concerned with persons who move from one occupational group to another by a change of occupation2. Occupational guidance3 may also cause changes in the occupational structure of a population.

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Interest in the problems of aged persons (cf. 324-8) has given rise to a special branch of studies called gerontology1, including the special branch of medicine called geriatrics2.

  • 1. gerontology n. — gerontological adj. — gerontologist n., a specialist in gerontology. 2. geriatrics n. — geriatric adj. — geriatrician n., a specialist in geriatrics.

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