SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Financial Independence, Assistant Professor, Malthusian Trap

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Demographic analysis is largely data driven, not so theoretically inclined. Want to understand what"s going on, trends. As such, generally aren"t conflict theorists, functionalists, symbolic interactionalists, e. t. c. Demographic transition theory: the most famous theory simply looks at what happened in europe (and na) and suggests it will happen elsewhere. Four stages of population stagnation, increase, deceleration, and stagnation (maybe a 5th stage with decline). Death rates going down, birth rates staying same, so population going up. Death rates going down but so are birth rates at same rate, so population still overall increasing but not as fast. Theory expects you would see this trend these in other areas of the world. Much of europe is experiencing negative natural population. Although migration is promoting slight population growth in places like span and italy. Economy: fewer working-age population, more elderly who need support. Immigration: growing non-native population creating fear, anti-immigrant sentiments. Several countries therefore trying to increase fertility.