Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiii, 562 pages illustrations; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Prentice-Hall series in sociology

Uniform title

1. Prentice-Hall series in sociology.

Subject

1. Population
2. Social structure
3. Population
4. social structure
5. population
6. Social structure
7. Demographie
8. Sozialstruktur
9. Société

Contents

1. Population and social structure. Introduction: world population and populations of the world: Man's numbers and his changing societies ; Demography and populations studies ; A brief sketch of world population history ; Population histories and historical demography ; Population variation: contemporary views ; Populations and societies in time and space -- Population and societal strategies of survival and adaptation: the size-density model and the urban revolution: Societal taxonomies and the size-density model ; Societal strategies of survival and adaptation: changes in time ; The urban-metropolitan revolution: the modern societal strategy of survival and adaptation ; Cities and hinterlands: the metropolitan community ; The megalopolitan network -- Data: the facts of populations and societies: Types of data ; Specialized sources of population data ; Analytical units for population studies ; Functional combinations of primary analytical units.
2. Quantitative representation and analysis of population composition and social structure: Introduction ; Elements of social structure ; Elements of population composition ; Counts, ratios, and frequency distributions ; Comparison of distributions ; Population composition and other correlates of variation in individual traits: "expected case" analysis ; Group characteristics and individual traits: contextual, structural, and compositional effects and ecological correlation analysis -- Quantitative representation and measurement of population movements and transformations: Introductory remarks ; Mortality analysis ; Standardization ; Life expectancy and the life table ; The abridged life table ; Fertility analysis ; Population projections: mortality, fertility, and changes in the size and composition of a population ; Migration and changes in the geographical distribution of a population.
3. Components of population growth and changing composition. Trends and variations in mortality and the social structure of mortality control: The modern decline of mortality ; Differential mortality ; The social structure of mortality control -- Matchmaking, marriage, and family formation: The frequency of marriage and nonmarriage ; Age at marriage ; Mate selection -- Patterns of childbearing: General remarks ; Trends and variations in fertility ; Dimensions of childbearing ; Microanalytic and macroanalytic theories of fertility and population growth -- Migratory movements: The definition and measurement of migration ; Migratory movements in different kinds of societies ; Migration and population redistribution ; Differential migration ; Individual, community, and societal consequences of migration -- Social and occupational mobility: Occupational mobility: sources of data and methods of measurement ; The occupational mobility regime ; Factors affecting the pattern of mobility rates ; Consequences of mobility patterns ; Concluding remarks: changing social and occupational structure as a consequence of mortality.
4. Population growth and social change. Social and economic responses to population growth: Changing population composition by roles: the labor force, age structure, and economic growth ; Population processes, social disorganization, and social change ; Population growth and social change -- Demographic responses to population growth: Population growth and redistribution: out-migration and bifurcation versus involution ; Control of population growth ; Demographic responses in selected industrialized countries -- A case study: population and growth in the United States: Population growth and expansion of settlement, 1790 -- 1860 ; Families and economic, social, and political institutions of nineteenth-century rural America ; Population growth and redistribution, 1870 -- 1950 ; Families and economic, social, and political institutions of twentieth-century urban America ; Community, ethnicity, and social class: changing axes of social solidarity and political cleavage.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 523-550.