Demography as an interdiscipline
By: edited by J. Mayone Stycos.
Contributors: Stycos, J. Mayone.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Brunswick, U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Demography.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Originally published as a special issue of Sociological forum, fall 1987"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / J. Mayone Stycos; title: The social sciences and the population problem / Samuel H. Preston; title: The fertility transition : Europe and the Third World compared / Susan Cotts Watkins; title: Migration and social structure : analytic issues and comparative perspectives in developing nations / Calvin Goldscheider; title: Proximate determinants of fertility and mortality / Jane Menken; title: The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason; title: Social change and the family : comparative perspectives from the West, China, and South Asia / Arland Thornton and Thomas E. Fricke; title: The location of ethnic and racial groups in the United States / Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters; title: Analyzing birth intervals : implications for demographic theory and data collection / Ronald R. Rindfuss, James A. Palmore, and Larry L. Bumpass.