According to economist Thomas Malthus, people should practice sexual abstinence before marriage and postpone marriage as long as possible in order to have only a few children. This would produce what he termed a __________ check on population.
a. positive
b. balanced
c. preventive
d. doubling
Question 2Occupations such as pharmacist have already been:
a. administratively downgraded.
b. deskilled.
c. deemphasized.
d. eliminated.
Question 3In the future, rapid population growth is __________.
a. inevitable
b. possible only with advanced technologies not yet developed
c. unlikely
d. impossible given how many people already populate the globe
Question 4The text points out that colleges of pharmacy in many universities have fought against by upgrading the degrees awarded to pharmacy graduates from the traditional B.S. in pharmacy to a Ph.D.
a. specialization
b. deprofessionalization
c. administrative downgrading
d. the span of control
Question 5Across the world, there is a general trend toward__________________.
a. more people moving to rural areas
b. more people living in cities
c. people abandoning cities in favor of suburbs
d. masses of people leaving suburbs for central cities
Question 6Certain professions are undergoing a process of __________, in which some of the characteristics of a profession are eliminated.
a. professional depersonalization
b. professional downgrading
c. professional specialization
d. deprofessionalization
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