Midterm2025_Q15. What is the most important reason that fertility takes a long time to drop during the Demographic Transition?

Question

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

The question presented is: Midterm2025_Q15. What is the most important reason that fertility takes a long time to drop during the Demographic Transition?

However, the provided data lacks the list of answer options. Without the full set of alternatives to compare, we cannot assess each option for correctness or incorrectness. We can still discuss the likely correct reasoning behind the given proposed answer and why it fits the broader theory, while noting the missing options.

Given answer: 'It takes time for attitudes to shift in favor of smaller families.'

Why this option is conceptually reasonable:
- Demographic Transition Theory emphasizes that fertility decline is not just a matter of economic change but also of cultural and behavioral change. The adoption of smaller family norms typically spreads gradually through a population via social diffusion, education, and changing marital patterns. This slow diffusion means fertility reductions unfold over generations rather than switching abruptly.
- Attitudes toward family size, childrearing, and desirable life trajectories often lag behind improvements in income, urbanization, and female education. Even when economic incentives align with lower fertility, individuals and communities may resist changing deeply held preferences for larger families, leading to a delayed decline.
- The inertia in pronatalist beliefs can stem from intergenerational transmission, religious or cultural norms, and perceived security needs (e.g., care in old age), all of which dampen rapid shifts in fertility behavior.
- Policy and institutional changes may support fertility decline, but the pace is moderated by how quickly attitudes adapt. This makes attitude change a plausible core reason for the gradual drop in fertility during the transition.

If we had the other options, we would compare them along these lines:
- Options claiming purely economic or policy-driven explanations without cultural diffusion would be incomplete, because economic improvements often precede, but do not by themselves guarantee, rapid fertility decline.
- Any choice asserting a rapid or instantaneous drop would be inconsistent with observed historical transitions, which typically exhibit phased declines.
- Misattributions to biological limits or irreversible trends would ignore social and behavioral dynamics central to demographic change.

In the absence of the other options, the provided statement aligns with a well-supported aspect of demographic transition reasoning: attitudes and norms about family size take time to shift, and this lag helps explain why fertility falls gradually rather than instantly during the transition.

AS.280.380.01.SP25 Exam 1, 5% final grade

Midterm2025_Q15. What is the most important reason that fertility takes a long time to drop during the Demographic Transition?

查看解析

登录即可查看完整答案

类似问题

Which country studied in International Aging is still in the early phase (increased life expectancy but an ongoing high fertility rate)?

Question68 Which of the following are the characteristics of Phase 1 of the demographic transition? High birth rates and high death rates Low birth and death rates Falling death rates but birth rates do not change much Declining birth and death rates ResetMaximum marks: 1 Flag question undefined

Question63 Which of the following are the characteristics of Phase 3 of the demographic transition? Low birth and death rates Falling death rates but birth rates do not change much High birth rates and high death rates Declining birth and death rates ResetMaximum marks: 1 Flag question undefined

Question55 Which of the following are the characteristics of Phase 2 of the demographic transition? Falling death rates but birth rates do not change much Declining birth and death rates Low birth and death rates High birth rates and high death rates ResetMaximum marks: 1 Flag question undefined

Which of the following describes a known long term relationship among poverty, hunger, and population growth?

Midterm2025_Q16. Which of the following is TRUE about the stages of demographic transition?

What happens as a country goes through the "Demographic transition”?

As a society moves from a condition of high rates of birth and death, to one of low rates of birth and death, the overall population begins to age. Demographers use the term _______________ to refer to this transition process.

更多留学生实用工具

考试浏览器助手

风格化写作助手

论文查重助手

文献引用助手

课堂转译助手

课堂笔记助手

Quiz搜索助手

学校历年真题

智能刷题助手

智能匹配练习

希望你的学习变得更简单