SOCI 415 Chapter n/a: Demographic Change Readings
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The demographic transition: three centuries of fundamental change. Faster population growth depress wages, causing mortality to rise because of famine, war and disease -> the. Depressed wages results in prostitution and contraception preventive check. Although pretransitional fertility was typically high in third-world countries, its levels were far below the hypothetical biological upper limit for a population (as opposed to an individual), which is around 15 to 17 births per woman (bongaarts, 1978). The contraceptive effects of prolonged breastfeeding, often combined with taboos on sex while breastfeeding, led to long birth intervals and reduced fertility. Abortion was also important, and sometimes the practice of coitus interruptus had an important effect. The classic demographic transition starts with mortality decline, followed after a time by reduced fertility,4 leading to an interval of first increased and then decreased population growth and, finally, population aging.
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