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This is the number of live births occuring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year per 1000 |
Crude Birth Rate Crude Birth Rate |
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This is the number of deaths occuring among the population if a given geographical area during a given year |
Crude Death Rate |
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The number of children who would be born per woman if she were to pass through childbearing years. |
Fertility Rate |
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An estimate of the average number of additional years a person may expect to live based on the age specific death rate rates for a given year. |
Life Expectancy |
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Who is the creator of the Malthusian theory? |
Thomas Robert Malthus |
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What were the professions of Malthus |
Clergyman, philospher and economist |
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When did Malthus study population? |
1798 |
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What did Malthus believe was the main limit to Population growth |
Food Supply |
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What was Malthus basic claim? |
The population would always grow faster than the food supply |
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How did Malthus say the population expand? |
Geometrically/Exponentially |
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How did Malthus say the Food Supply expands? |
Arithmetically |
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What was the purpose of the negative checks? |
Limit reproduction or fertility |
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What were the practices in the negative checks? |
Abstinence Delay of marriage |
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Why did Malthus doubt that the negative checks would work? |
Because people gain pleasure from sex |
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What was the purpose of the positive checks? |
Increase mortality and reduce life expectancy |
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Did Malthus support artifical birth control? |
No |
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What was the concequence of population growth as stated by Malthus? |
Greater pressure to farm available land for food which will reduce the quality of the land |
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Why did Malthus did not support Welfare |
He feels it encourages the poor to reproduce more as it eliminates the fear of financial burden that came with children |
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What are the limitations to Malthusian theory? |
Outdated His Religous Hinderance Technology Improved Transportation |
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Who created the Demographic Transition Theory and when? |
Warren Thompson in 1929 |
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Who further developed the Demographic Transition Theory and when? |
Frank Notestein in 1945 |
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What is the name of stage 1 in the demographic Transition Theory? |
The High Fluctuating Stage |
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What is Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition theory called? |
The early expanding stage |
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What is the name of Stage 3 in Demographic Transition theory? |
Late expanding stage |
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What is stage 4 of the Demographic Transition called? |
Low fluctuating stage |
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Births rate are high in stage 1 of ths DT theory because? |
No birth control or family planning Children are needed as farm hands Children are seen as a sign of verility |
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Death rates in stage 1 of the DT theory is high because |
Death by famine Death by poor nutrition Death by plagues Poor Sanitation Backwards medicine |
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The death rate decreases in stage 2 of the DT theory because... |
Imcreased Food Supply Medical Advances Better Sanitation Enhanced Transportation |
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How did Medical Advances decrease the death rate in stage 2 of the DT theory |
Vaccination, better drugs and supplies, more doctors and more nurses |
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Why is the birth rate declining in stage 3 of the DT theory? |
Children are seen as liabilities |
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Who developed a Caribbean perspective on the caribbean demographic transition theory? |
George Roberts |
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Which type of population pyramids have large bases and gets smaller going up? |
Expanding pyramids |
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Who is the creator of the Modernisation theory? |
Walt Whitman Rostow |
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What did W.W.Rostow base his explanation on? |
Economic growth |
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How many stages are in Modernisation theory |
5 |
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Who formulated the convergenc theory |
Clark Kerr |
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Who created the Dependency theory |
Andre Gunder Frank (Marxist) |
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Who put foward the world systems theory |
Immanuel Wallerstein |
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Which other theory is Immanuel Wallerstein is involved in? |
Globalization Theory |
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What are some criticisms of Modernisation theory? |
Bias towards western standards Rich countries contribute to slow develipment of other countries Progress of countries can be hindered by natural disasters, Rostow does not consider this |
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What is a criticism of Convergence theory? |
It feels that all countries must evolve along the line of western countries |
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Give 2 Pronatal countries |
France and Japan |
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Give 2 Antinatal countries? |
India China |
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What are the 4 areas population policies may be created under? |
Birth Control Migration Food Security Housing |
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What is the name of the birth control agency in Jamaica? |
National Family Planning Board |
