Year: 1973
Type: book-review
Abstract: Reviews / 163 ent groups in a society.Those groups in society that have a high rate of growth will grow proportionately relative to those who have lower rate of growth.Growth of groups may come either from surplus of births over deaths, or from immigration and conversion.The latter is usually an unimportant source of growth.Emphasis on high birth rates is seen as a recipe for eventual political dominance.One sees this problem in such places as far apart as Guyana, Trinidad, Quebec, The Netherlands, South Africa, Fiji, and Ceylon, where in racially or culturally heterogeneous societies the fear of many groups of being "outbred" may condemn the
DOI: 10.2307/45224447
Author: David Tolman
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312438862