SOCI 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Demographic Transition, Sub-Saharan Africa, Infant Mortality
18 Feb 2019
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This doesn"t say there"s no choice (just that choice is heavily limited/influenced by these external factors) Broader theories about demographic change: main ones, malthus and principle of population, v moralistic and put a lot of blame on individual for their bad pop growing behaviour, demographic transition theory, big idea that guides demography, developmental idealism. February 4th, 2019: we"ve already talked a lot about red line, today we will discuss the other two lines (birth rate and death rates. Three ways to view this model: 1. Schematic/model of the past: historical description of past (ex: canada has gone through this transition, 2. International decision making agencies assume this is accurate. They rely on this dt model to make decisions: ex: we need to invest in economy in order to decrease fertility. February 4th, 2019: empirically, this modernization is not the soul or primary cause of fertility and mortality decline (in some places it is but not always the cause, 2.
