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Social demography
Title:
Social demography
Author:
Taeuber, Karl E.
ISBN:
9781483260914
Publication Information:
New York : Academic Press, ©1978.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Studies in population
Studies in population.
Contents:
Some problems of fertility research / Norman B. Ryder -- The pervasiveness of postwar fertility trends in the United States / Ronald R. Rindfuss and James A. Sweet -- Age and the sociology of fertility: How old is too old? / Ronald R. Rindfuss and Larry L. Bumpass -- Couples' decision-making processes regarding fertility / Linda J. Beckman -- Spatial aspects of population: An overview / Amos H. Hawley -- Overcrowding, isolation, and human behaviour: Exploring the extremes in population distribution / Omer R. Galle and Walter R. Gove -- The organizational components of expanding metropolitan systems / Franklin D. Wilson -- The new pattern of nonmetropolitan population change / Calvin L. Beale and Glenn V. Gufuitt -- Mobility and stratification: An overview / David D. McFarland -- Changes in the socioeconomic stratification of the races / David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser -- Statistical histories of the life cycle of birth cohorts: The transition from schoolboy to adult male / Halliman H. Winsborough -- Some methodological issues in the analysis of longitudianal surveys / Burton Singer and Seymour Spilerman -- The next fifteen years in demographicanalysis / Samuel H. Preston -- Organization of demographic research: Problems of the next decade / Halliman H. Winsborough.
Abstract:
Social Demography focuses on selected topics on social science research on population. The papers included in the book are compiled from a conference sponsored by the Center for Population Research, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 1975. The book compiles various findings in social and behavioral research. Chapters explore topics on trend analysis; the sociological meaning of age, and the social-psychological processes of reproductive behavior; analysis of certain aspects of the spatial organization of metropolitan activities; the changing racial stratification; and the futu.
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ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126826500Available:*
Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB849 .S62 1978 EB | 1181400-1001 | Elsevier E-Book Collections | Searching... |
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