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The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul Eberts, and Michael Hannan, all professors at the time at Cornell. With the very generous financial assistance of David Call, then the dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Poston, Eberts, and Hannan put together a two-day conference oflectures and papers by human ecologists from Cornell University and elsewhere. The conference focused on sociological human ecology and celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Amos Hawley's Human Ecology (Ronald Press 1950). Professor Hawley was the keynote speaker at the conference. Many of the authors of the chapters in this volume presented earlier versions at the Cornell conference in 1990. Cornell's Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology also contrib uted financial assistance; however, without Dean Call's very generous support, the conference would not have been possible. A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology. Many opted to do so, but others did not because of time and other kinds of commitments and constraints.
List of contents
I. Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations.- 1. Human Ecology, Population, and Development.- 2. Human Ecology, Sociology, and Demography.- 3. The Ecological Complex: A Conceptual Elaboration.- 4. POETS-PACS-LEDD: From Paradigm to Theory to Policy in Human Ecological Perspective.- 5. An Ecological Theory of Organizational Structuring.- 6. Ecology's Contribution to Cross-National Theory and Research.- 7. The Human Ecology of Agriculture in the United States.- 8. Ecological Approaches in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentiation and Inequality.- 9. Enhancing the Spatial Policy Framework with Ecological Analysis.- II. Empirical Research.- 10. Division of Labor and Morphological Response: Evidence from Saudi Arabia.- 11. Determinants of the Division of Labor in China.- 12. The Effects of Public and Private Sustenance Organizations on Population Redistribution in New York State.- 13. Toward an Integrated Ecological-Sociological Theory of Suburbanization.- 14. Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation in China.- 15. An Ecological Investigation of Agricultural Patterns in the United States.- 16. Ecological and Structural Determinants of Declining Labor Force Participation of African-American Men: Evidence from Southern Nonmetropolitan Labor Markets, 1940-1980.- Epilogue: Confessions of a Sometime Ecologist (Mostly Human).- About the Contributors.- Name Index.
Summary
A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology.
