Studies in the Sociology of Population
Studies in the Sociology of Population

Author: Jon Anson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-23

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 3319948695

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This book presents a cross section of the work and concerns of social demographers worldwide, covering a broad range of topics from social structure through population structure to social policy; from fertility and mortality through migration to the way in which organisations deal with the demographic environment in which they operate. Topics addressed also include morbidity and health profiles and transitions, as well as policies and programs concerned with these and other issues. The volume touches on some of the major links between population and societal dynamics. It addresses demographic patterns and issues from micro-level, meso-level, and macro-level perspectives and helps put into focus the past, present and future of the mutual relations between population dynamics and societal responses. With a unique introductory chapter discussing the global unevenness of population growth today, its associations with inequality and the challenges it presents for the future, and a truly international approach to social and demographic change and policy responses, this book will serve as a valuable resource for professionals and students in sociology, demography, social policy and local governance.

Handbook of Population
Handbook of Population

Author: Dudley L. Poston

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-26

Total Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 0387231064

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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 applied approaches to the study of demographic phenomena. This book is the first effort to assess the entire field since Hauser and Duncan's 1959 classic, The Study of Population. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades. They represent a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives as well as interests in both basic and applied research.

Sociology as a Population Science
Sociology as a Population Science

Author: John H. Goldthorpe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1107127831

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Provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.

Population Health in America
Population Health in America

Author: Robert A. Hummer

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0520291565

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In this engaging and accessibly written book, Population Health in America weaves demographic data with social theory and research to help students understand health patterns and trends in the U.S. population. While life expectancy was estimated to be just 37 years in the United States in 1870, today it is more than twice as long, at over 78 years. Yet today, life expectancy in the U.S. lags behind almost all other wealthy countries. Within the U.S., there are substantial social inequalities in health and mortality: women live longer but less healthier lives than men; African Americans and Native Americans live far shorter lives than Asian Americans and White Americans; and socioeconomic inequalities in health have been widening over the past 20 years. What accounts for these population health patterns and trends? Inviting students to delve into population health trends and disparities, demographers Robert Hummer and Erin Hamilton provide an easily understandable historical and contemporary portrait of U.S. population health. Perfect for courses such as population health, medical or health sociology, social epidemiology, health disparities, demography, and others, as well as for academic researchers and lay persons interested in better understanding the overall health of the country, Population Health in America also challenges students, academics, and the public to understand current health policy priorities and to ask whether considerably different directions are needed.

Social Demography
Social Demography

Author: Karl E. Taeuber

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1483260917

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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 future of research in social demography. Demographers, sociologists, and political and economic policy makers will find the book as a good source of insights.

Political Sociology and the People's Health
Political Sociology and the People's Health

Author: Jason Beckfield

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-08-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0190492481

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A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of institutions that unequally allocate power and social goods. Neither is wrong -- but can the two talk to one another? In a stirring new synthesis, Political Sociology and the People's Health advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology's macroscopic insights into social policy, labor markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology's conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions. The result is a major leap forward in how we understand the relationships between institutions and inequalities -- and essential reading for those in public health, sociology, and beyond.

Pioneers of Sociological Science
Pioneers of Sociological Science

Author: John H. Goldthorpe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1108832156

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In this study of pioneers of the field, Goldthorpe explains how present-day sociological science developed from the seventeenth century onwards. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology and to anyone engaged in social science research, from statisticians to social historians.

Sociology of Population in India
Sociology of Population in India

Author: Aḥsānulḥaq

Publisher: MacMillan India

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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Sociology of Population in India is a source book that demonstrates using empirical data, how demographic components are socially regulated and conditioned. Such an emphasis makes the book interdisciplinary and a comprehensive source of knowledge in the a

Population and Society
Population and Society

Author: Dudley L. Poston, Jr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 1316883175

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This comprehensive yet accessible textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students taking their first course in demography. Clearly explaining technical demographic issues without using extensive mathematics, Population and Society is sociologically oriented, but incorporates a variety of social sciences in its approach, including economics, political science, geography, and history. It highlights the significant impact of decision-making at the individual level - especially regarding fertility, but also mortality and migration - on population change. The text engages students by providing numerous examples of demography's practical applications in their lives, and demonstrates the extent of its relevance by examining a wide selection of data from the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This thoroughly revised edition includes four new chapters, covering topics such as race and sexuality, and encourages students to consider the broad implications of population growth and change for global challenges such as environmental degradation.

The Demography of Health and Health Care (second edition)
The Demography of Health and Health Care (second edition)

Author: Louis G. Pol

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0306473763

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This is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992. The authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.