From Persons to People - A Second Primer in Demography

List of contents

Introduction; I: Population; 1: The Fundamentals of Demography; 2: Population Structure; 3: Population in History; 4: Malthus; 5: Marx and Early Marxists; 6: Lenin and His Successors; 7: Parents versus the State; 8: Efforts to Reduce the Fertility of Less Developed Countries; 9: A State in the Desert; 10: The Abortion Controversy; II: Ethnicity; 11: Concepts of Ethnicity; 12: Political Influences on Ethnicity; 13: Europe’s Nations and Subnations; Names in Population Records: ; 15: Jews as a Race; 16: Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans; 17: Social Consequences of Religion; 18: A Closing Word

About the author

William Petersen

Summary

Problems associated with aggregation and classification are the underlying theme of this book

Product details

• Authors: Petersen, William Petersen, Petersen William
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138510265
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51026-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Social research & statistics, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Social research and statistics