SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mortality Rate, Malthusian Trap, Concentric Zone Model
15 Apr 2016
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Demography and social studies of human populations. The malthusian trap and a critique of malthus" theory. The chicago school; concentric zone model of cities. Cities: the corporate city, suburbs, cmas, rural commuter zones, edge cities, gentrification, the postmodern city. To the right is an example of how demographers might apply a their research with a predictive analysis of population composition and change. Fears of over-population: a famous early social historical viewpoint. Thomas robert malthus (1798): british clergyman who proposed a famous theory of population growth that has since been both celebrated and contested across the social sciences. Malthus calculated that populations grow quickly and geometrically (e. g. intervals of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. ) while necessary resources such as food supplies grow slowly and arithmetically (e. g. intervals of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Therefore, he believed populations would reach a critical mass, whereby. The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice .
