Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

'One child policy' is one of the measures to decrease the population size. This policy can be categorised under which of the following? 

Options:

Positive Checks 

Preventive Checks 

Population Explosion 

Social Demography

Correct Answer:

Preventive Checks 

Explanation:

 

One child policy is an example of preventive check.
According to Malthus, humanity has only a limited ability to voluntarily reduce the growth of its population (through ‘preventive checks’ such as postponing marriage or practicing sexual abstinence or celibacy). Malthus believed therefore that ‘positive checks’ to population growth – in the form of famines and diseases – were inevitable because they were nature’s way of dealing with the imbalance between food supply and increasing population.