SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Population Bomb, Structural Violence, Shortage

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Rebekah Burroway

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----malthus: population growth will outstrip the food supply and collapse in war and famine. ----marx: population growth is not the problem; the problem is the distribution of resources to people. Ehrlich (1968): the population bomb claimed a world of 3 billion could never grow to 6. ----but, % of undernourished in developing countries has declined. *the biggest problem about a growing population, is that it is happening in the raise kids ever since the recession. ----- simultaneously, pop aging: by 2050 the pop over age 65 will double. *democratic transition theory- a theory that helps us understand the relationship between population growth and the economy. Soviet union broke up, all of these people moved into smaller countries. They have been in a huge recession, and having huge economic problems. ---- government introduced financial subsidies as incentives to bear children. world"s poorest countries. Us birth rate has dropped (cid:883)(cid:882)% since (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:889). Russia is one of the world"s fastest shrinking countries.