6 Mobility and migration

Abstract

People are the basic element of all social structure. Human beings create a society and its traditions. If a population is increasing, if it is always moving about, if it has a large proportion of immigrants, if it has to push out large numbers who can not find work, if it is made up of a variety of cultural groups, it will clearly be a different kind of society than it would be if these conditions did not prevail. This is not to suggest that the prime mover of social structure is the population factor. Demographic changes do not take