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Human Nature, Psychological Technology, and the Control of Population Growth
Author(s) -
Back Kurt W.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1974.tb01764.x
Subject(s) - coercion (linguistics) , population control , perspective (graphical) , population , voluntarism (philosophy) , control (management) , adaptability , birth control , population growth , psychology , overpopulation , social psychology , engineering ethics , sociology , engineering , research methodology , epistemology , economics , computer science , demography , management , family planning , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence
The contributions to this issue demonstrate that the most developed area in psychology relevant to population control is the implementation of the use of birth control methods. The larger issues of policy, such as the questions of coercion versus voluntarism or the limits of human adaptability, are selectively neglected in current research. Looking at population problems in a large historical perspective will help the psychologist to provide scientific knowledge for population policy.