Population and demography Books

Putting Crime in its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology focuses on the units of analysis used in geographic criminology. While crime and place studies have been a part of criminology from the early 19th century, growing interest in...

Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to...

This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to the present day. The book uses this to demonstrate how the multilevel approach can resolve some of the contradictions that have...

This book examines the role that institutional characteristics of host countries play in labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research, it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors and...

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are...

In the twentieth century, all developed nations began to undergo unprecedented demographic changes, as their birth rates declined, and life expectancies increased significantly --an average of thirty years in less than a century

El Ensayo sobre el principio de la poblaci������n es un libro escrito por Thomas Robert Malthus en 1846. En este ensayo, Malthus presenta su teor������a sobre el crecimiento de la poblaci������n y la relaci������n entre la poblaci������n y los recursos...

Il libro ""Della Teoria Della Popolazione V1, Malthus: Principalmente Sotto L'Aspetto Del Metodo"" di Angelo Messedaglia, pubblicato nel 1858, offre una disamina completa della teoria della popolazione di Malthus, concentrandosi principalmente sul suo...

Le livre ""De La Mortalite Des Nourrissons En France (1866)"" �����crit par Brochard, Andre Theodore, est une �����tude sur la mortalit����� infantile en France au XIXe si�����cle. L'auteur examine les causes de d�����c�����s des nourrissons, telles que...

Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to...

This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation...

This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health...

This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as...

This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as "differential undercount", by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why...

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of...

The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach may be...

For over a hundred years, demography has been at the heart of the Zionist project, reflected in the goal of creating and maintaining a Jewish majority in Israel and in ensuring the physical continuation of the Jewish people

This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native...

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World-mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those...

This book examines the changing demographic situation of Syrian refugees and the host community in Turkey, one of the major refugee hosting countries in the world, relying on a recent representative dataset.

About the BookAN IDEA THAT HAS SPARKED A SILENT REVOLUTION: THE STUDENT POLICE CADET SCHEME, WHICH HAS CONVERTED SCHOOLCHILDREN INTO CHANGEMAKERS, POLICE PERSONNEL INTO ENABLERS AND SCHOOLS INTO INNOVATION HUBS.An idea could change lives: teaming up...

Die Hälfte des deutschen Wohnungsbestands befindet sich in Ein- und Zweifamilienhäusern. Diese Arbeit untersucht auf empirischer Grundlage die Prozesse in Gebieten aus den 1960er bis 1980er Jahren: Wie schnell verläuft der Generationswechsel? Folgt der...

This book presents a detailed projection model to estimate future demand for care among older people. Using Poland as a case study, the author examines the impact of population ageing and changes in intergenerational relations on informal care provision.

Of the lists of taxpayers and other persons compiled by the city of Barcelona in the 14th century, only very few have come down to us. This volume contains the oldest extant examples, stemming from the 1360s. They comprise (a) tax surveys (talles) in the...

A travers le cas de la paroisse de Corsier-sur-Vevey en Suisse, ce livre analyse la transition entre Ancien Régime et Suisse moderne telle qu'elle se reflète dans les choix de partenaires sociaux, en mettant l'accent sur les mariages, les parrainages et...

Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena.

Genealogists will recognize this work as an index to the earliest complete census of Georgia. This index identifies about 30,000 heads of families, alphabetically arranged, along with their counties of residence.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Vergleich, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Soziale Sicherungssysteme...

1. Einleitung32. Grundlagen42.1 Demographische Entwicklung in Deutschland: Veränderung der Altersstruktur und Bevölkerungsrückgang42.2 Die Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung53 Konsequenzen des Bevölkerungswandels für Finanzierung der GKV63.1 Einfluss des...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstruktur (Theorien sozialer Ungleichheit),...

There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful criminal justice system. Both of these myths reinforce a social imaginary where cultural values of family...

One of the stereotypes surrounding the home front during and immediately after World War I is that Germanophobia eradicated German-American culture as we know it. To be sure, owing to the "guilt by association" reaction to the U.S. entry into the...

Pre-dating the first federal census by almost a full generation, this is the most extensive list of early Connecticut inhabitants on record. It was first published in 1858, with an index compiled separately in 1954. Both are included in this reprint. In...

This census index, in common with others prepared by Mrs. Bentley, is the standard reference tool on its subject--a work as thorough and as accurate as painstaking labor could make it. Where questions of interpretation occurred, for example, Mrs. Bentley...

This is an unparalleled reference tool for California genealogical research, the most significant aid to have been developed from the U.S. census of 1850. This census was the first to list the name of every individual in the household; it also included...

In modernen, der Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter unterliegenden Gesellschaften, gilt allgemein die Vorstellung, sowohl Männer als auch Frauen sollten im Regelfall einer Erwerbsarbeit nachgehen und sich eventuelle Familienarbeiten dann paritätisch...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 2,0, Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Gesamtsystem der Alterssicherung in Deutschland besteht aus einer Vielzahl von...

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. The volume's 30 chapters cover the full range of conceptual, empirical, disciplinary, and...

Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research,...

Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world. Indeed, the growth of older populations is among the important global phenomena of the...

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within...