Overview
- The most comprehensive reference collection on population in the last 40 years
- The contributors are leaders in the field of demography and population studies
- Dudley Poston is the Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and Michael Micklin is chief of Risk, Prevention, & Health Behavior Integrated Review Group at the National Institutes of Health
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Population and the Social Sciences
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Applied Demography
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"A systematic appraisal of the field of demography is long overdue. It has been almost five decades since Philip Hauser and Otis Dudley Duncan published their classic The Study of Populaiton. The volume naturally covers the latest developments in time-honored fields such as age and sex, marriage and family, mortality, fertility, and both internal and international migration. It also inlcudes new material on subjects that did not even exist at the time of the last survey, including biodemography, anthropological demography, and political demography. This comprehensive review of 50 years of progress in theoretical and empirical knowledge confirms that demography is indeed a cumulative science." (Douglas S. Massey, Princeton)
"The Handbook of Population is a worthy successor to the 1959 publication of The Study of Population edited by Hauser and Duncan. The editors did a remarkable job of putting together an excellent outline that covers every topic within Demography. The editors did an even more remarkable job in gathering such talented scholars to write each chapter. Together they mesh into what will soon become our 'bible.' It should be in every college library and should be on every demographer's desk." (Leon Bouvier, Old Dominion University)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Population
Editors: Dudley L. Poston, Michael Micklin
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b100598
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25702-0Published: 10 August 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-23106-8Published: 26 April 2006
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 918
Topics: Demography, Sociology, general, Population Economics, Public Health, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Statistics, general