SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Infant Mortality, Thomas Robert Malthus, Demographic Transition

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

Document Summary

Predicted to stabilize at 9. 8 billion by 2050. Most population growth occurs in poorest countries. The fertility rate must be greater than the death rate. Can move from rural to urban for opportunities. Happens in rural areas and poorer countries due to lack of family planning. Misery due to unequal distribution of resources. If everyone equally shared the resources then there would be enough for everyone (communism/socialism) Warned people about the dangers of population growth. Poorer people are at a greater disadvantage because they can not afford the resources. As populations get larger you will have increased inequality between people. More people in a country can cause the lack of resources. Men will have more competition for jobs. Different nationalities have different things to live by. In china you can only have so many kids. Race and ethnicity how many children people have. Migration happens, people want to go to developed countries.