SOC 103 Chapter Notes -Gendercide, Ulrich Beck, Reflexive Modernization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Teppermann

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This is because the irrigated area is decreasing and water is become scarce. Critical theory"s approach to malthus: critical theory: sociologist who take the critical theory approach deny that social equilibrium is attainable. However, they sat that people in power takes actions to benefit themselves first: critical theorist say: that the problems poor countries face are not from over population, rather from an uneven distribution of the worlds wealth. Therefore, in poor countries the problem is not too many people, but shortage of capital and lack of markets for their agricultural products. Therefore, large rapidly growing populations merely compound the problems of poverty, dependency, plague and famine: zero population growth- birth equal deaths, this will help reach equilibrium. Functionalism: functionalist: social problems in the city as resulting naturally from growth and specialization (wealth leads to robbery, functionalist focus on other tendencies of the city- size, variety which leads to social disorganization and distress.