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Written in an engaging, accessible style, the third edition has been extensively updated to include the most recent round of international censuses, emerging trends, and new chapters on epidemics, the labor force and expanded empirical discussions of race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, sex structure and gender identity. Featuring plentiful recent examples and data from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa, it explains the demographic processes of fertility, mortality, and migration, elucidating how these concepts can be applied to understand topics such as contraception and birth control, pandemics, and public immigration policy. Introducing students to the major sources and applications of demographic data, it demonstrates how demography forms a useful lens for understanding many aspects of society, including our most pressing global challenges. A comprehensive instructor manual, chapter outline PowerPoints, and figures and tables from the book are available.
List of contents
1. An Introduction to Demography; 2. Theories of Population; 3. The Sources of Demographic Information; 4. Fertility; 5. Mortality; 6. Internal Migration; 7. International Migration; 8. The Family; 9. Sexual Orientation; 10. Sex Structure and Gender Identity; 11. Contraception and Birth Control; 12. Epidemics and Pandemics; 13. Age Composition and Aging Societies; 14. Labor Force; 15. Race and Ethnic Relations; 16. World Population Change over Time; 17. Population Change in the US; 18. Population Distribution; 19. Population Policy; 20. The Earth in the 21st and 22nd Centuries.
About the author
Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Sociology, held positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University and, most recently, Texas A & M University. Here, he held the Abell Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts. He was also an adjunct professor at three universities in China. He has coauthored or edited twnety-four books and has authored or coauthored more than 400 journal articles, book chapters and opinion pieces on various sociological and demographic topics.Teresa A. Sullivan taught demography courses at the University of Chicago, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. She was President of the University of Virginia, Provost of the University of Michigan, and Vice President and Graduate Dean at the University of Texas-Austin. She chaired the National Academies panel on the accuracy of the 2020 Census, publishing a separate book on the 2020 Census. Her demographic specialty is labor force and related issues, and she has applied her knowledge in books analyzing consumer bankruptcy, work and labor force, and underemployment.
