SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Unit Process, Infant Mortality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2800
• Professor: Merouan Mekouar

Document Summary

Despite substantial urbanization, rural residents constitute 45% of developing world population. Lack wealth and educational resources or organizational abilities that middle and upper classes have. Do have some importance during political and economic revolutions, but are less important. Urban-rural gaps in major quality of life indicators - literacy, healthcare, life expectancy. Rural rates of poverty greater than in urban areas. 75% of those living in absolute poverty. Inadequate housing, low literacy rates, malnutrition, high infant mortality rates. Government policies on many issues have urban bias to them as most political in uence is in the urban cities - political and economic issues. Landed elite on top - powerful class of land owners or the oligarchy - signi cant political and economic in uence. Midsized landlords and af uent peasants in middle. Rural poor (smallholders, tenant farmers, farmworkers, the landless) on bottom. Landless further subdivided into tenant farmers and wage labourers - however these categories are not mutually exclusive.