SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Demographic Transition, Biomimetics, Egalitarianism

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 111
• Professor: Teresa Downing- Matibag

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Chapter 3: world population and global inequality: more population growth in lesser developed countries, more young people = less developed country. I(cid:374) (cid:1005)8(cid:1004)(cid:1004), 3% of the (cid:449)orld"s populatio(cid:374) li(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) (cid:272)ities. Housing structures, garbage, sewers cannot handle rapid growth. Biomimicry: on the path to eco-friendly sustainable cities: biomimicry: the science of examining how nature solves problems and applying those lessons to the human designed world, the rapid growth is urban areas exacerbates problems like: Racism, crime and pollution: understanding how pollution is related to rapid population growth in urban areas is straightforward. United states in the global village: wealthy nations can provide humanitarian aid to developing nations with three conditions. Capitalism: private ownership of property, pursuit of maximum profit. Want to make as much money as possible at any cost possible: cost of labor: a factor that goes into the system of production that business-owners must be paid for.