SOC 3470 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Sub-Saharan Africa, Inverse Relation, Social Inequality
4 Dec 2016
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Agrarian heritage = adapt to challenged well (advantage) Found only really in sub-saharan africa, new guinea and haiti. Less than 10% of the world population. Social inequality tends to be substantially more pronounced in industrializing societies than in economically more developed industrial societies. Industrializing societies have the richest rich and the poorest poors. More education = more economic and social development. Inverse relationship between popular growth rates and national income growth. Negative impact of high population growth rates. More people = harder to support the basic needs of people. More kids = more education needed, becomes expensive. Some still pass on wealth, business, and political influence. Many industrializing horticultural societies were pre-state before colonialism drew national boundaries. These boundaries jumbled together some unrelated ethnic groups and divided some in half. Internal divisions between tribes led to unequal development and power. One of the worst hindrances to development in many industrializing.
