Research Catalog

Title

Readings on population / [compiled by] David M. Heer.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., : Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Heer, David M.

Description

ix, 234 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Prentice-Hall readings in modern sociology series

Uniform Title

Prentice-Hall readings in modern sociology series.

Subject

• Demography
• Demography
• demography
• Population

Note

• Designed to supplement the author's Society and population.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1. History of population growth -- Population growth and increase in the means of subsistence : Europe's initial population explosion / William L. Lancer -- Demographic determinants of European population growth : medical evidence related to English population changes in the eighteenth century / Thomas McKeown and R.G. Brown -- Part 2. Population distribution and density -- Urbanization : urbanization and the development of pre-industrial areas / Kingsley Davis and Hilda Hertz Golden -- Social effects of high population density : population density and social pathology / John B. Calhoun -- Part 3. Mortality -- Elimination of malaria and mortality decline : malaria control and population pressure in Ceylon / Harald Frederiksen -- Economic development and mortality decline since World War II : determinants and consequences of mortality trends in Ceylon / Harald Frederiksen -- Biological and social causes of sex differences in mortality : are sex mortality differentials biologically caused? / Francis C. Madigan -- Part 4. Fertility -- A conceptual scheme for analyzing desired family size : values and fertility analysis / Joseph J. Spengler -- An explanation of the American baby boom following World War II : the American baby boom in historical perspective / Richard A. Easterlin -- The high fertility of the less developed nations : norms for family size in underdeveloped areas / Ronald Freedman -- Part 5. Migration -- Empirical generalization concerning migration : a theory or migration / Everett S. Lee -- Consequences of governmental control of international migration : planned migration / William Petersen -- Part 6. Population policy -- Soviet population policy : abortion, contraception, and population policy in the Soviet Union / David M. Heer -- Effective implementation of fertility control programs : obstacles to programs of population control, facts and fancies / J. Mayone Stycos -- Momentary incentives for accepting birth control : economic programs to prevent births / Stephen Enke.

LCCN

68020158

OCLC

• ocm00193303
• 193303
• SCSB-201585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library