SOCA02H3 Chapter 20: Brym_Ch20.docx
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Population: rio de janeiro city, brazil 1 of the world"s most beautiful cities. 40 years ago, sociologists believed that cities were alienating & anomic (normless: this is only an oversimplification. P2 = population size at a given time an earlier time. B = number of births o: i = number of immigrants arriving. The malthusian trap: thomas robert malthus proposed highly influential theory of human population, theory rests on 2 facts: 1) people must eat; 2) people driven by a strong sexual urge. It is unclear what the natural upper limit is, limits are higher than malthus expected: technological advances have allowed rapid growth in food production, some populations are large yet prosperous (example. It explains how changes in fertility & mortality affect population growth: the main factors underlying population dynamics are industrialization & modern cultural values. It is based on the observation that european population developed in 4 stages from pre-
