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POPULATION GROWTH

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The world is facing several  sustainable development issues,  and p opulation growth  is a major part of the problem. A POPULATION The number of same-specie organisms living in a particular geographic area at a particular time is known as a population. When these organisms reproduce and increase, then it is termed as "population growth".    3 DETERMINANTS OF POPULATION GROWTH Population growth is determined by  fertility , mortality , and migration .   *fertility is the occurrence of live births among a population *mortality describes the number of deaths among a population *migration is the movement of population from one place to another   SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Sustainable development revolves around making our world a better place for us without depleting the resource available for future generations. We want social and economic development, but at the same time, we have to conserve environment and fight climate change...

MARXISM

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* Karl Marx was born in 1818 and he died in 1883. * Marxism is a conflict theory as it says that society is in a conflict.  * There is a conflict between proleteriat and bourgeoisi . * Marx argued that history unfolded on the basis of materialistic epistemology in a dialectical process . (key terms٫ do search them) * The first thing that forms material reality is labour.  Some key definitions! * Productive forces - our capacity to produce * Mode of production - economic systems like capitalism/ socialism etc * Relations of production - Social relations are formed through collective labour. * Means of production - economic resources The dialectic of history   * There comes a time when relations of production can no longer develop the productive forces and so a social revolution is required to overthrow these relations of production.  It's time for a new economic system!!! * Dialectic of history is the contradiction between the relation of production and the prod...