Research Catalog

Title

Population and society : a textbook of readings / edited by Charles B. Nam.

Publication

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

Nam, Charles B.

Description

xi, 708 pages illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Textbook of readings on population and demographic structure, with particular reference to demography in the USA - includes population policy, family planning, mortality and fertility trends, migrations, social mobility, cultural factors, urban populations, rural populations, minority groups, social stratification, etc. References and statistical tables.

Subject

• Demography
• Population
• Demography
• Population
• demography
• population
• cultural factor
• family planning
• fertility
• migration
• minority group
• mortality
• population policy
• rural population
• social mobility
• social stratification
• statistical table
• trend
• urban population
• Démographie > Étude et enseignement
• démographie
• facteur culturel
• fécondité
• groupe minoritaire
• mobilité sociale
• mortalité
• planification familiale
• politique démographique
• population rurale
• population urbaine
• stratification sociale
• tableau statistique
• tendance
• demografía
• población
• cuadros estadísticos
• estratificación social
• factor cultural
• fecundidad
• grupo minoritario
• migración
• mortalidad
• movilidad social
• planificación familiar
• población rural
• población urbana
• política demográfica
• tendencia
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• Collected Work
• textbook.
• reference.
• manuel d'enseignement.
• référence bibliographique.
• libro de texto.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. Elements of population analysis. 1. The nature of population data: The utility and modern conception of a population census / Statistical Office of the United Nations -- Fact finder for the nation / U.S. Bureau of the Census -- Evolution and present status of vital records and statistics / Statistical Office of the United Nations -- Errors in age reporting in statistically underdeveloped countries (with special reference to the Chinese population of Singapore) / You Poh Seng -- 2. Population growth: theory and fact: History of population theories / Population division, United Nations -- The development of modern population theory / Warren C. Robinson -- The modern expansion of world population John D. Durand -- 3. Mortality trends and differentials: A century of international mortality trends / George J. Stolnitz -- Are sex mortality differentials biologically caused? / Francis C. Madigan -- Socioeconomic status and mortality in the United States / Edward G. Stockwell -- Measuring health levels in the United States 1900-1958 / Odin W. Anderson & Monroe Lerner -- 4. Fertility trends and differentials: the world situation: Social class and differential fertility in Peru / J. Mayone Stycos -- Conditions and trends of fertility in the world / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations -- Social structure and fertility: an analytic framework / Kingsley Davis & Judith Blake -- Norms for family size in underdeveloped areas / Ronald Freedman -- Factors affecting Moslem natality / Dudley Kirk -- 4. Fertility trends and differentials: the United States: The fertility of American women: the colonial and early federal periods / Wilson H. Grabill, Clyde V. Kiser & Pascal K. Whelpton -- American studies of family planning and fertility: a review of major trends and issues / Ronald Freedman -- "Boom babies" come of age: the American family at the crossroads / Population Reference Bureau -- The social biology of very high fertility among the Hutterites: the demography of a unique population / Joseph W. Eaton & Albert J. Mayer -- 6. Internation migration patterns: A general typology of migration / William Petersen -- World immigration patterns / W.S. Woytinsky & E.S. Woytinsky -- Immigration to the United States / Conrad Taeuber & Irene B. Taeuber -- 7. Internal migration patterns: Internal migration: an overview of problems and studies / Toshio Kuroda -- Mobility within the United States / Henry S. Shryock -- Life-cycle, career pattern and the decision to move / Gerald R. Leslie & Arthur H. Richardson -- 8. Population composition: The aging human populations: mechanisms of change / Clyde V. Kiser -- Some notes on the changing age composition of the population of the United States / Edward G. Stockwell -- Color-nativity-race composition / Donald J. Bogue -- Trends and differentials in the American age at marriage / J.R. Rele -- 9. Population distribution: The origin and growth of urbanization in the world / Kingsley Davis -- Rural depopulation in the United States: some demographic consequences of agricultural adjustments / Calvin L. Beale -- Age and sex composition of urban subareas / Calvin F. Schmid -- Urban daytime population: a field for demographic-ecological analysis / Donald L. Foley -- Part II. Interrelations between population and areas of social life. 10. Population and the family: Husband-wife communication and fertility / J. Mayone Stycos -- History of contraceptive methods / Christopher Tietze -- The family as a factor in migration / Henry S. Shryock -- Family formation and family composition: trends and prospects / Paul C. Glick. David M. Heer and John C. Beresford -- 11. Population and social stratification: The impact of migration on the socio-economic structure of cities and suburbs / Sidney Goldstein & Kurt B. Mayer -- Variations in socioeconomic structure by race, residence and the life cycle / Charles B. Nam & Mary G. Powers -- Social mobility in demographic perspective / Leo F. Schnore -- 12. Population and education: Education and fertility in the United States / Robert M. Dinkel -- Educational trends from census data / John K. Folger & Charles B. Nam -- Is the intelligence of the general population declining? / Otis Dudley Duncan -- 13. Population and religion: Jewish fertility in the United States / Erich Rosenthal -- Birth control and the Christian churches / Flann Campbell -- Religious composition of the population of the United States / Donald J. Bogue -- 14. Population and the economy: The economic effects of changes in age composition / Joseph J. Spengler -- The U.S. labor force: 1950-1960: "Islands of obsolete capacity and unwanted skills" / Robert C. Cook & Tadd Fisher -- The length of working life for males, 1900-60 / Stuart H. Garfinkle -- Some interrelations of population and atomic power / Vincent Heath Whitney -- 15. Population and the polity: Population policies in developing countries and related international attitudes Dorothy Nortman -- Population movement and political behavior / Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller & Donald E. Stokes -- Birth control in mainland China: ideology and politics / H. Yuan Tien -- Population and power in the free world / Kingsley Davis.

LCCN

68002086

OCLC

• ocm00430881
• 430881
• SCSB-179042

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library