Why Demography Matters by Danny Dorling & Stuart Gietel-Basten

Author:Danny Dorling & Stuart Gietel-Basten [Dorling, Danny & Gietel-Basten, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780745698441
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2017-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Only the current generation has seen fertility rates as low as they are now. Mitochondrial Eve lived around 200,000 years ago: http://www.mhrc.net/mitochondrialEve.htm.

2. See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-bury-rape-clause-child-tax-credit-donald-trump-inauguration-victim-sexual-abuse-evidence-a7540351.html.

3. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs placed the ‘physiological’ at the bottom, then ‘safety’, ‘belongingness and love’, ‘esteem’, ‘self-actualization’, and at the very top ‘self-transcendence’. He placed sex and having an adequate birth rate at the lowest level.

4. It is worth noting, however, that this is a relatively new departure for demographers. As Paul Demeny writes, their ‘role, as is the case for social scientists at large, is to describe and examine phenomena within their discipline and leave formulation of policy proposals to others’ (2016: 121). However, for Demeny, his concern about the extent and consequences of the European ‘demographic crises’ of low fertility and migration ‘calls for an exception’ (2016: 121).

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