Demography in the Age of the Postmodern

Informationen zum Autor Nancy E. Riley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bowdoin College, Maine. Klappentext A critical study of the field of demography from a postmodernist perspective. Zusammenfassung Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain both its political and academic strength. In this new study! Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography from the new perspective of postmodernism! looking at the beginnings of the development of demography as a field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: why examine demography?; 2. A brief introduction to postmodernism; 3. The essentials of demography; 4. A genealogy of demography; 5. Demography's place in the social sciences; 6. Feminist demography; 7. Postmodern perspectives in demography; 8. Some final thoughts; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: James McCarthy, Nancy Riley, Nancy E. Riley
• Assisted by: David I. Kertzer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2004
• EAN: 9780521533645
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53364-5
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Series: New Perspectives on Anthropolo; New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography; New Perspectives on Anthropolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)