THE DEMOGRAPHIC SCIENCE WHILE A THEORY TO REFLECT AND QUESTION THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL STRUCTURING

Abstract

The Humans, particularly the Western European and North American populations, are considered in the conservative literature as the standard and ideal human groups, and everyday people's media express the ideology prevailing in these domains as an ideal to be followed and reproduced in the other regions of the planet. However, it is from this way of life that it also originates the greatest atrocities in the world (wars, exploitation, genocide, ethnocide, among others), a situation that is now perpetuated through neocolonialism. As a result of this, vast numbers of miserable people are produced in other areas of the world, especially low-income countries (economically), where demographic theories emerge to discuss such a scenario, such as Neo-Malthusian theory, which considers poverty as the cause of themselves, since they generate many offspring. On the other hand, there is the reformist / Marxist theory, which sees in the absence of the state the cause of widespread poverty. In view of these two ideological perceptions, the present study brings to the debate the implications of both understandings, and it is opportune an understanding of these questions based on the demographic data that is present in the contemporary world. Therefore, demography is a discussion that takes sides and allows its stakeholders to position their own understandings on this issue, a construction that clarifies the paths and (dis) paths insinuated within the demographic theories. The challenge of this study was limited to evidence the logic of the reformist theory as a method that allows to question the current conjuncture of organization and public policies in force in the world.