SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Ernest Burgess, Gentrification, Rio De Janeiro
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Population: rio de janeiro city, brazil 1 of world"s most beautiful cities. 40 yrs ago, sociologists believed that cities were alienating & anomic (normless: only an oversimplification. P2 = pop size @ a given time time. B = # of births o: i = # of immigrants arriving. P1 = pop size @ an earlier. | chapter 20: 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. A critique of malthus: technological advances have allowed rapid growth in food production, unclear what the natural upper limit is, limits are er than malthus expected, some populations are large yet prosperous (ex. Demographic transition theory: explains how changes in fertility & mortality affected pop growth, main factors underlying pop dynamics are industrialization & modern cultural values, based on observation that european pop developed in 4 stages from pre-ind to post-ind.
