Introduction to Sociology/Demography/doeun lee





1.     Summary

Demography includes research on the size, distribution, and population of the population, and how the population changes over time, from birth to death. The most important indicators are birth rate and mortality rate. Demography accounts for many sociological phenomena. This demographic tool was used for political purposes early in the study.




2.     New/Interesting things I learned

Worldwide birth rates are declining. I already knew that developed countries had lower birthrates than developing countries. However, I wondered what specific reasons Africa(developing country) has the highest fertility rate, as all countries are decreasing their fertility rates. The reason is that the child is an economic asset to parents because they work on farms. It was so shocking. In developed countries, the fertility rate is lowered in order to increase the cost of investing in one child. On the other side of the globe, it is a sad reality that the birth rate is steadily rising because children soon lead to assets. I thought that lower fertility rates in developing countries would help economically by reducing the cost of children. In developing countries, however, children were the ones that brought money, not need a money.

3.     Discussion

People living in the country go to the city to find better economic opportunities. This is because rural areas have difficulties in building economic wealth due to lack of social infrastructure. So the government promotes rural urbanization. I want to point out that there is a problem with this point. First, no matter how much rural urbanization is pursued, the level is lower than the existing urban area. Existing cities have a base, so they can pursue their own development, but the country can only be supported with the help of the state. Second, Is urban urbanization really right? I think that the harmonization of rural and rural development cities should be appropriate. If all areas lose nature, the environment will be very bad. So I do not know if it's urbanization and it's going right, it's essentially right.

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