After Watching a Commercial Requesting Viewers to Sponsor a Child

question 71

Multiple Choice

After watching a commercial requesting viewers to sponsor a child in Africa, Joshua asserts that the child poverty problem would be solved if the people in Africa would utilize birth control rather than expecting other countries to pay for raising their families. Which theory of development does Joshua subscribe to?

• A) stages of development theory
• B) dependency theory
• C) stratification theory
• D) modernization theory

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Definitions:

Sociology

The systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions.

Fertility Rates

The average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime, a key demographic measure affecting population growth.

Death Rates

The number of deaths in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

New Malthusians

A group or perspective that revisits Thomas Malthus's ideas concerning population growth, advocating for population control to prevent or mitigate future environmental and resource crises.