Jr Dudley L. Poston, Leon F. Bouvier

Population and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideal for a first course in demography, this sociologically oriented textbook stresses the individual's role in population decision-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1188g
• ISBN-13: 9781107042674
• ISBN-10: 1107042674
• Artikelnr.: 47151346

Autorenporträt

Dudley L. Poston, Jr, is Professor of Sociology and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University. He holds adjunct professorships at Renmin University of China, Beijing; Fuzhou University, China; and Nanjing University, China. He previously served on the rural sociology and sociology faculties, respectively, of Cornell University, New York and the University of Texas, Austin. Professor Poston has coauthored or edited eighteen books and has authored or coauthored more than 300 journal articles and book chapters on various sociological and demographic topics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to demography
2. Theories of population
3. The sources of demographic information
4. Fertility
5. The family and sexuality
6. Contraception and birth control
7. Mortality
8. Internal migration
9. International migration
10. Age and sex composition
11. Race and ethnic relations
12. World population change over time
13. Population change in the US
14. Population distribution
15. Population policy
16. World population in the twenty-first century.