SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Thomas Robert Malthus, 8 Seconds, Infant Mortality

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Caglar Cetin, Samee Shirazi, Tiffany Joseph

Document Summary

Soc 248- lecture notes- lecture 18, 19- population and health. Major population booms: fertility rate> death rate, increased life expectancy, fertility rate in developed countries declining, migration, happening in rural areas, poorer countries due to lack of contraception/family planning. Population declines: high infant, child mortality rates (developing countries, aging populations (developed countries, low fertility rates. Theories of global population growth: thomas malthus, british economist, population growth was exponential, doubled every so many decades, create social, political, economic strain within a country, catastrophe- breakdown of society. Too many people not enough resources (similar to paul ehrlich: karl marx, people were a country"s greatest strength, misery due to unequal distribution of resources, there"s enough for all if equally shared. Strain on resources and infrastructure: fewer resources for more people: clean water, food, sewage, nonrenewable resources: gas, coal, electricity, poorer people and countries at greater disadvantage. Environment: disruption of natural world, extinction of species, climate change.