Demography as an interdiscipline /

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Other Authors: Stycos, J. Mayone
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / J. Mayone Stycos
  • The social sciences and the population problem / Samuel H. Preston
  • The fertility transition : Europe and the Third World compared / Susan Cotts Watkins
  • Migration and social structure : analytic issues and comparative perspectives in developing nations /Calvin Goldscheider
  • Proximate determinants of fertility and mortality / Jane Menken
  • The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason
  • Social change and the family : comparative perspectives from the West, China, and South Asia / Arland Thornton and Thomas E. Fricke
  • The location of ethnic and racial groups in the United States / Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters
  • Analyzing birth intervals : implications for demographic theory and data collection / Ronald R. Rindfuss, James A. Palmore, and Larry L. Bumpass.