SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Relationship Education, Mancur Olson
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->low health care; young marriage: from transition from traditional to modern society, familial structures provision of household labour, many laborers needed for type of agriculture (low according to our standards, difficulty of transportation. Can be difference between life and death ( 3 days to travel to the nearest hospital: globalization highly present, modernization-->combo of changing attitudes of parents , modern technology , political structure. Would point to the need for total change. ->evidence of convergence or divergence: convergence: gap closing divergence: gap between rich & poor getting wider, most countries have improved on all factors, can"t analyze trends based on 1 case; but does not exclude convergence. Even though i. e. total fertility rates decreased, infant survival rates increased misery is depicted, can"t say that rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. ->institutions: traditional institutions present i. e. institution of marriage is functioning: traditional institutions are weakening b/c material base, emergence of cities.
