Sociology II · 10 marks · 150 words

Discuss Davis and Blake perspective on "relationship between fertility and social structure".

Answered by 4 toppers · CSE 2019–2021

Population Size and GrowthAgeing, Sex Ratio and Health

Syllabus: Population Dynamics: (a) Population size, growth, composition and distribution. (b) Components of population growth: birth, death, migration. (c) Population Policy and family planning. (d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.

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The toppers’ answers

Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 76 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a definition

Fertility can be defined as the capability to reproduce. while fertility rate is defined as number of child per 1000 women.

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Relationship between fertility and social structure

  1. Poverty in society tends to increase fertility and number of children
  2. Modernisation and urbanisation decrease fertility.
  3. Smaller family size and nuclear families have an ideology to produce less number of children, hence it reduces fertility.
  4. Population policy of Government also impact fertility of a country.

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