title: Is demographic uniformity inevitable?
abstract: "Globalizing processes of industrialization and Westernization are creating a retreat from diversity in human experience.  The paper discusses whether population trends are reinforcing this process and draws on findings about growth rates, the family and urbanization in Western countries, East and Southeast Asia and Latin America.  The extent to which counterbalancing forces, including cultural resilience, are curbing homogenization is also examined."
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D007221:Industry; D010684:Philosophy; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012106:Research; D012922:Social Change; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Comparative Studies; Cross-cultural Comparisons; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Geographic Factors; Industrialization; Philosophical Overview; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Research Methodology; Social Change; Spatial Distribution; Studies; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; World