SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Isle Royale National Park, Thomas Robert Malthus, Demographic Transition

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

The bottom line: malthus may have been wrong, but we aren"t out of the woods. Choosing single motherhood focuses on the increase of educated black women having non-marital children. Argued that population grows faster than food production (agricultural production is arithmetically) People reproduce geometrically population will rise faster than food. However this is expected to level out around 9 billion people. The causes of population change are easy to grasp: if births exceed deaths the population is growing, gross immigration and gross emigration (does not affect global population) Preindustrial families wanted lots of children: their labor was needed children are parents retirement plan, a lot of children we"re wanted because many would die during infancy or childhood. The demographic transition: occurs in all societies. Pre-transition period is typically before industrialization which is characterized by very high birth rates and very high death rates, with very small population growth.