Week 15 Quiz

Which statement gives this course's definition of the total fertility rate?

Select one.

• The average number of children a woman would have at the current age-specific birth rates
• The number of children born in a country in one year, counted directly from its birth records
• The average number of children living in each family household in a given year in that country
• The number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people living in a population

In an illustrative country, the birth rate per 1,000 women in their childbearing years falls, yet the number of births rises, because many more women are now of childbearing age. Which idea names this pattern?

Select one.

• The demographic transition, because the country's birth rates are falling
• Natural increase, because the country's births are greater than its deaths
• Population momentum, a large young generation keeping births up
• Positive checks, because the country's population is outrunning its food

A student writes: "First death rates fell while birth rates stayed high, then birth rates fell too, until both were low and stable." Which idea does this sentence describe?

Select one.

• Malthus's positive checks, his 1798 prediction about food and famine
• The demographic transition, a classroom model of stages
• Population momentum, growth that continues after fertility has fallen
• Natural increase, the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate

In the demographic transition, during which part of the path does a population grow fastest?

Select one.

• While birth and death rates are both high
• After birth rates begin to fall as well
• Once both rates are low and stable
• When death rates fall but birth rates stay high

A crowd of thousands that gathers in the street when a concert's power fails, and goes home within an hour, is a social movement because of its size.

True or false.

• True
• False

An illustrative neighborhood campaign meets for several years to persuade the city to pass one law requiring bike lanes. Using Aberle's model, which type of movement is it?

Select one.

• Reformative: a partial change in society
• Redemptive: a total change in the lives of individuals
• Transformative: a total change in the whole society
• Alterative: a partial change in the lives of individuals

An illustrative tenants' group organizes after its members compare their broken heaters with a newer building across the street, where repairs come fast. Which movement theory does this detail fit best?

Select one.

• Resource mobilization theory, because the group gathered money and volunteers
• Political process theory, because a door opened in the city's politics
• Relative deprivation theory, because the tenants compared with others
• New social movement theory, because the group organized around its identity

Which of these statements about the city match this course? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Burgess's concentric-zone model pictures a growing city spreading outward in rings from the central business district
• Wirth linked a city's size, density, and diversity to impersonal and segmented relationships
• The concentric-zone model describes the layout of every real city
• Wirth's urbanism describes city life as close and personal in every relationship
• Urbanization means the number of cities in a country is growing

Our World in Data's presentation of the United Nations World Population Prospects gives a global total fertility rate of 2.3 children per woman in 2023, against 4.9 in the 1950s. Which reading of these figures is accurate?

Select one.

• Families around the world now have 2.3 children each, on average, in 2023
• The rate fell by more than half, and it is a rate, not a count of children
• The world's population must now be shrinking, because the rate fell so far
• The fall proves that the demographic transition is what caused the change

Asked "correlation or cause?" about the fall in the global total fertility rate from 4.9 in the 1950s to 2.3 in 2023, which answer fits this course?

Select one.

• Cause, because the rate fell in the same decades that the world's cities grew
• Correlation, because the rate is associated with each woman's age group
• Cause, because the demographic transition model explains why the rate fell
• Neither: the figures describe two periods without explaining the fall