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Review Malthus’ theory of population and the social control of its growth. Discuss the naturalistic and cultural elements of his theory.
Malthus Examined the relationship between population growth and resources.
Preventive check:- .
Are actions that people take to avoid population
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He favoured moral restraint and didn't encourage the latter practices.
Positive checks:-to population are things that shorten the life span, warfare and poor living and working of environments.
According to him these positive checks would result in a malthusian crisis.