Author Question: Outline the differences between the first and second demographic transitions. What will be an ... (Read 114 times)

cookcarl · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Outline the differences between the first and second demographic transitions.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The transition of opiate use from an acceptable, if often abused, pain reliever to that of a pleasure-seeking drug also saw a change in __________.

a. the drug's pharmacology, which provided more relief for the psychological pain of poverty and urban life
b. the distribution from doctors to pushers
c. the demographics of the user to that of working-class males, increasingly of color
d. its former female demographic, which turned increasingly to social drinking during the Roaring Twenties

missalyssa26 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

In the first demographic transition a country undergoes significant social change. Specifically, it undergoes a transition from high mortality and fertility to declining mortality followed by declining fertility. Finally, during a posttransition period both mortality and fertility are low. Some researchers now argue that developed, wealthy nations also undergo a second demographic transition. In this transition fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels so populations are aging rapidly. Changes in the living arrangements of families are also a part of this second transition. Finally, populations become more racially/ethnically diverse.

Answer to Question 2

c