SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Demographic Transition

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 111
• Professor: Teresa Downing- Matibag

Document Summary

2% of the global population owns of global wealth. Poverty: living on less than . 25 a day, poverty rates are going down but the inequality gap is increasing. Inequality is growing within and between nations: absolute poverty- poverty based on national standard, relative poverty- (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:449)here you li(cid:448)e, (cid:449)ho you"re arou(cid:374)d. Population growth contributing to global poverty: the larger proportion of the country is impoverished, the higher the birth rate. This is because they have less access to family planning. Life expectancy is lower- having more kids means higher chance of kids surviving: there is greater resource scarcity- food scarcity. Lesser access to healthcare and education: global population growth. Eventually even out, but the earth cannot sustain the growth. Low population not a lot of development. Population begins to grow: urbanization stage. Stabilization: population declines eventually (germany and japan for example) They do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a repla(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of fertility rates. Trying to promote marriage of japanese men.