According to Demographic Transition Theory :

According to Demographic Transition Theory
 
  A) The world's population will outstrip food supply, leading to famine and war
  B) Unequal resource distribution coupled with the poor having more babies will lead to global crisis
  C) Only forced sterilizations will help solve the population problem
  D) Population growth and decline are related to technological development

Question 2

Which of the following statements most closely matches the author's commentary about the relationship between guns and suicide as conveyed in the textbook?
 
  a. Guns cause suicide.
  b. Guns have nothing to do with suicide.
  c. The widespread availability of guns in society contributes to suicide.
  d. Fewer people kill themselves with guns than with any other implement.

Question 3

What was Paul Elrich's suggested solution to manage population growth?
 
  A) Achieve zero population growth
  B) Encourage people to have no more than four children
  C) Abstinence-only sex education
  D) That sterilization should be mandatory for the poor, who are likely to have more children than the wealthy

Question 4

According to the text, Weber is one of the top three sociologists along with __________.
 
  a. Mills and Du Bois
  b. Marx and Durkheim
  c. Martineau and Addams
  d. Comte and Spencer

Question 5

What is required to achieve zero population growth?
 
  A) A one-child policy such as China's
  B) Births cannot exceed deaths
  C) Deaths must exceed births
  D) Births must exceed deaths

Question 6

Why was Karl Marx critical of the Malthusian theory?
 
  A) He believed that population growth was a myth
  B) He argued that unequal resource distribution was a more significant problem than population growth.
  C) He believed that all families should be very large in order to create a revolution.
  D) He argued it was disease that was causing hardship and there was little that could change it.

Question 7

__________ was concerned that population growth might spin out of control and lead to disaster, because population could grow faster than the food supply.
 
  A) Karl Marx
  B) Emile Durkheim
  C) Thomas Malthus
  D) Max Weber