Population and Society

Essential Readings

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Population and Society brings together twenty-six classic and contemporary published works that are considered to be foundational reading for the study of human population and society.The book is divided into ten sections with concise introductory overviews by the editor, Frank Trovato. Section one examines the foundational principles of demography and its nature as a multidisciplinary field. Section two addresses the relationship between individual action and demographic phenomena. Sections three and four cover the history of the human population and principles of age composition. Section five focuses on nuptiality and family processes. Sections six, seven, and eight cover the three central variables of demography- fertility, mortality, and migration. Issues pertaining to population and its relationship to environment and resources are presented in Section nine, while the final section is devoted to population policy concerns.Offering an international perspective, this collection will be essential reading in a variety of related studies: socioeconomic development and change; methods and models; social structure and change; aging and gerontology; human diversity; globalization; regionalism; human ecology; and geography.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-10-24
Mått178 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt604 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
Upplaga2
FörlagOUP Canada
ISBN9780195439786

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Frank Trovato holds a PhD in social demography from the University of Western Ontario and has taught demography and population studies at the University of Alberta since his appointment in 1983. He is the editor of Canadian Studies in Population, the official journal of the Canadian Population Society (he is also a past president) and a past director of the Population Research Laboratory (PRL) at the University of Alberta. His research intersects the disciplines of demography, sociology, and social epidemiology on a variety of subject areas including immigrant health and mortality; sex and marital status variations in cause-specific mortality and life expectancy; youth suicide and other life-threatening behaviours; the social demography of racial, immigrant, and ethnic populations and fertility and nuptiality trends and internal migration in Canada.

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SECTION ONE THE STUDY OF POPULATION; MASSIMO LIVI-BACCI; NATHAN KEYFITZ; SECTION TWO DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION; THOMAS K. BURCH; LINCOLN DAY; SECTION THREE WORLD POPULATION: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE; JOEL BIRABEN; RONALD LEE; SECTION FOUR AGE COMPOSITION; ANSLEY J. COALE; WOLFGANG LUTZ, WARREN SANDERSON, AND SERGEI SCHERBOV; SECTION FIVE NUPTIALITY AND FAMILY PATTERNS; CELINE LE BOURDAIS AND EVELYNE LAPIERRE-ADAMCYK; PATRICK HEUVELINE AND JEFFREY M. TIMBERLAKE; SECTION SIX FERTILITY; JOHN BONGAARTS AND ROBERT G. POTTER; KINGSLEY DAVIS; JOHN C. CALDWELL AND THOMAS SCHINDLMAYR; JOHN BONGAARTS; SECTION SEVEN MORTALITY AND HEALTH; SAMUEL H. PRESTON; KAARE CHRISTENSEN, GABRIELE DOBLHAMMER, ROLAND RAU, AND JAMES W. VAUPEL; MICHAEL MARMOT; FRANK TROVATO AND N.M. LALU; SECTION EIGHT MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION; WILBUR ZELINSKY; PETER A. ROGERSON AND DAEJONG KIM; STEPHEN CASTLES AND MARK A. MILLER; SECTION NINE POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES; DAVID E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, AND JAYPEE SEVILLA; CHARLES A.S. HALL AND JOHN W. DAY JR; GEOFFREY D. SACHS, ANDREW D. MELLINGER, AND JOHN L. GALLUP; SECTION TEN POPULATION POLICY CONCERNS; ANNE GAUTHIER; NDOLA PRATA; CREDITS

"This is an incredible collection of essays that provides a nice introduction to the field of demography." --Zheng Wu, University of Victoria"This new edition will stand the test of time. These are appropriately entitled 'essential readings' for students of the twenty-first century. The editor's introductions place the readings in context and bring unity to the collection, profiting from an author who has himself written widely and reached many students over the years." --Roderic Beaujot, University of Western Ontario