Population and Society
Essential Readings
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 24 October 2011
- ISBN 9780195439786
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 229x178x15 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 64 figures; 36 tables; 3 maps 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Full Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Section One The Study of Population
The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth
Massimo Livi-Bacci
How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?
Nathan Keyfitz
Section Two Demographic Processes and Individual Action
The Structure of Demographic Action
Thomas K. Burch
Illustrating Behavioural Principles with Examples from Demography: The Causal Analysis of Differences in Fertility
Lincoln Day
Section Three World Population: Past, Present, Future
The Rising Numbers of Humankind
Joel Biraben
The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change
Ronald Lee
Section Four Age Composition
How a Population Ages or Grows Younger
Ansley J. Coale
The Coming Acceleration of Global Population Aging
Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov
Section Five Nuptiality and Family Patterns
Changes in Conjugal Life in Canada: Is Cohabitation Progressively Replacing Marriage?
Céline Le Bourdais and Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk
The Role of Cohabitation in Family Formation: The United States in Comparative Perspective
Patrick Heuveline and Jeffrey M. Timberlake
Section Six Fertility
Fertility, Biology, and Behaviour: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants
John Bongaarts and Robert G. Potter
Low Fertility in Evolutionary Perspective
Kingsley Davis
Explanations of the Fertility Crisis in Modern Societies: A Search for Commonalities
John C. Caldwell and Thomas Schindlmayr
Fertility Transitions in Developing Countries: Progress or Stagnation?
John Bongaarts
Section Seven Mortality and Health
Human Mortality throughout History and Prehistory
Samuel H. Preston
Aging Populations: The Challenges Ahead
Kaare Christensen, Gabriele Doblhammer, Roland Rau, and James W. Vaupel
Social Determinants of Health Inequalities
Michael Marmot
Narrowing Sex Differentials in Life Expectancy in the Industrialized World: Early 1970s to Early 1990s
Frank Trovato and N.M. Lalu
Section Eight Migration and Urbanization
The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition
Wilbur Zelinsky
Population Distribution and Redistribution of the Baby-Boom Cohort in the United States: Recent Trends and Implications
Peter A. Rogerson and Daejong Kim
The Age of Migration
Stephen Castles and Mark A. Miller
Section Nine Population, Environment, and Resources
The Debate over the Effects of Population Growth on Economic Growth
David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Jaypee Sevilla
Revisiting the Limits to Growth after Peak Oil
Charles A.S. Hall and John W. Day Jr
The Geography of Poverty and Wealth
Geoffrey D. Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger, and John L. Gallup
Section Ten Population Policy Concerns
The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility in Industrialized Countries: A Review of the Literature
Anne Gauthier
Making Family Planning Accessible in Resource-Poor Settings
Ndola Prata
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