Research Catalog

Title

Against the stream : reflections of an unconventional demographer / William Petersen.

Author

Petersen, William.

Publication

New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c2004.

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Details

Description

xiv, 139 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This latest work by a distinguished demographer is a compact volume, a compendium of thought written in a nontechnical manner and about various subjects that will both interest the general reader and offer a different perspective of their disciplines to demographers and sociologists."--Jacket.

Subject

• Demography
• Social problems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. On utopias -- 2. Two utopians plan towns -- 3. Population and its sustenance -- 4. A founder of sociology blunders -- 5. An anomaly in Western Europe -- 6. Canadian-American relations -- 7. Revolting Berkeley students -- 8. Student rebels and juvenile delinquents -- 9. The anti-urban bias in the Protestant ethos -- 10. The roots of Christian holidays -- 11. From the history of English to current usage -- 12. Too much of a good thing -- 13. On the cause of death.

ISBN

0765802228 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003066168

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library