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Unit Two Flashcards

1
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What is the dependency load?

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Percentage of a country’s population that is under 14 or over 65 that must be supported by the working population.

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2
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What is the replacement rate?

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Total fertility rate that produces a natural increase rate of zero

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3
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What is the exact value for a balanced replacement rate?

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2.1

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4
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What is a demographic trap?

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Increase in birth rates and a declining death rate

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5
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What is a population explosion?

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Massive increase in a population that a country has a hard time controlling

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What is the feedback loop and what does it consist of?

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Demographic trap = food issues + education issues + employment issues
If on of these factors improve, then the country will move forward economically and socially

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What are the first three stages of the Demographic Transition Model?

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Stage 1 (pre-modern) - high birth and death rates
Stage 2 (industrializing) - high birth rate, lowering death rate
Stage 3 (mature industrial) - falling birth rate, low death rate
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What are the last two stages of the Demographic Transition Model?

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Stage 4 (post industrial) - low birth rate, low death rate
Stage 5 (population implosion)
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9
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What is the cornucopian population theory?

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Human’s will find technology that will increase Earth’s carrying capacity

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What is the demographic regulation theory and who created it?

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That the earth and society will naturally control population growth, created by D.J. bouge

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What is the Malthusian population theory?

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Food increases arithmetically while population increases geometrically - we’ll run out of food
Only ways of fixing this: war, disease and famine

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12
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What is the phantom carrying capacity and who created it?

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Created by William Cotton, the belief that we’ll use up all our non-renewable resources while creating an unsustainable population

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13
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Why are india and china experiencing a demographic trap?

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India: dowry, lack of woman rights, limited family planning, forced abortions

China: one child policy, lack of woman rights

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14
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Explain structured change and give examples of countries utilizing this.

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When the government forces demographic change.

India - forced men to get vasectomies, encourage woman’s to become sterilized, banned ultrasounds

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15
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Explain change by diffusion and give an explain of a society who implemented it

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Using the media and conversations to spread the idea of smaller families = happier families
Example: kerala

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16
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How was Kerala successful in using change by diffusion?

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Education, status of women, elected government, expatriate workers, health, land reform

17
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What is a population implosion?

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The fertility rate is below 2.1 (low birth rate)

18
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What are the problems with a birth dearth?

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Changing family structure, aging population, labour shortage, economic affects, global power-shift

19
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What causes a birth dearth?

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Changing women’s role in society
Kids are expensive
Lifestyle of not having kids
Increased family planning options

20
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What are pronatalist strategies

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Ideas that encourage people to have more children

21
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What are push and pull factors?

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Push factors - reasons to leave a country

Pull factors - reasons to come to a country

22
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What is voluntary and involuntary migration?

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Voluntary - moving by your free will

Involuntary - moving against your free will

23
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What are guest workers?

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Countries that admit immigrants to fill jobs in a growing economy but do mot give them full citizenship

24
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What is legal migration?

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Legal migration - applying for citizenship and getting ranked on a point system

25
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What are the three classes of legal migration?

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Class 1: economic class - skills that make you an asset
Class 2: family class - family member sponsors you
Class 3: refugee class - wait in a refugee camp until given citizenship

26
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What is illegal migration?

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A person does not apply legally for citizenship, they just show up

27
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What are the stages of technological advancement?

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Stage 1: hunting and gathering
Stage 2: the agricultural revolution
Stage 3: the industrial revolution
- 1700s britain

28
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Give examples of pronatalist countries

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France
  - 30% price reduction on transportation for kids
  - subsidized daycare
Iran
 - banned vasectomies
Sweden
 - free childcare for young kids
Singapore
 - tax rebates, priority for public housing
29
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What is the carrying capacity?

A

The number of people that the world’s resources can support using the technology that exists at the time

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