A. increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins
B. there being fewer women of childbearing age than there were in the first half of the century
C. errors in the measurement of birth rates and production of statistics
D. the risk diseases caused by poverty poor housing and bad sanitation
Related Mcqs:
- Coercive and punitive measures to reduce fertility have aroused considerable indignation among many citizens in Western nations. Such measures have included_____________?
A. Italy’s practice of punishing couples who have two or more children.
B. china’s practice of fining a woman who is pregnant with a second child 20 per cent of her pay if she refuses to have an abortion.
C. France’s elimination of tax deductions for families with more than two children.
D. Brazil’s refusal to grant a divorce to couples with children - Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that______________?
A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques - Paul du Gay’s (2000) In Praise of Bureaucracy makes two important points in defense of bureaucratic forms of organization Which two points are they? A bureaucratic ethos ?
A. is compatible with private sector values and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
B. ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
C. ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition and ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest
D. is compatible with private sector values and ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition - social aggregations that emerge from the (Inter)Net when enough people carry on…. public discussions long enough with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships What is Rheingold (2000) describing here ?
A. cyberspace
B. the worldwide web
C. virtual communities
D. chatrooms - Over population is also one of the major causes of_______________?
A. unemployment
B. Inflation
C. Poverty
D. All of the above - In modern society cultural change is most likely to be the by-product of_______________?
A. Planning
B. Diffusion
C. Social struggle
D. None of these - The identification of a new moon of Saturn was an act of_______________?
A. invention
B. discovery
C. diffusion
D. cultural integration - Values traditions, and beliefs are all examples of_______________?
A. popular culture
B. customs
C. material culture
D. non-material culture
E. culture relativism - Snowballing is an example of_______________?
A. probability sampling
B. non-probability sampling
C. cluster sampling
D. using the Christmas vacation constructively - Comte gave the law of_______________?
A. Four phases
B. three phases
C. Two phases
D. All of above
