Chapter 12: Demographics, Culture, and Social Inequality

The final chapter zooms out to the largest scale of sociology: how entire populations are structured, how cultures shape behavior, and how inequality is produced and reproduced across generations. Most of the content here frames public-health and clinical medicine questions, so expect the MCAT to weave these concepts through passages about social determinants of health.

In This Chapter

• 12.1 Demographic Structure of Society
• 12.2 Urbanization, Population Dynamics, and Demographic Transition
• 12.3 Culture: Material, Symbolic, Subcultures, and Cultural Change
• 12.4 Social Stratification, Mobility, and Poverty
• 12.5 Social Reproduction, Healthcare Disparities, and Intersectionality
• Section Test