SOC 3470 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Infection, Knowledge Level, Nepotism
4 Dec 2016
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Industrial era saw a huge growth in the store of information concerning the prevention and cure of disease. Death rate from communicable disease has dropped tremendously. Life expectancy at birth has more than tripled. Advances in contraception and abortion allowed women to safely control the number of offspring. Various social changes eliminated the economic incentive to have more children. In many industrial societies, birthrates have fallen below the level required to keep the same sized population. Economic opportunity encouraged immigration to the us. High levels of immigration and economic recession/high unemployment led to ethnic violence and xenophobia. Advances in agriculture removed the need to stay in rural. peasantry areas. Factory system and the need for large concentrations of workers stimulated city/town growth. Now the family is only an economic unity in terms of consumption, not production. Not much nepotism, families no longer control the political system.
