Research Catalog

Title

Social demography / edited by Karl E. Taeuber, Larry L. Bumpass, James A. Sweet ; Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Publication

New York : Academic Press, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Taeuber, Karl E.
• Bumpass, Larry L.
• Sweet, James A.
• University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology.
• Center for Population Research (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.))

Description

xv, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Studies in population

Uniform Title

Studies in population.

Subject

• Fertility, Human > Congresses
• Population density > Congresses
• Social mobility > Congresses
• Population research > Congresses
• Population density
• Population research
• Population Density
• population density
• Fertility, Human
• Social mobility
• Demographie
• Soziologie
• Bevolkingsontwikkeling
• Sociale mobiliteit
• Demographie
• Soziologie

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Konferenzschrift.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held by the Center for Population Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 15-16, 1975.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Some problems of fertility research / Norman B. Ryder -- The pervasiveness of postwar fertility trends in the United States / Ronald R. Rindfuss and James A. Sweet -- Age and the sociology of fertility: How old is too old? / Ronald R. Rindfuss and Larry L. Bumpass -- Couples' decision-making processes regarding fertility / Linda J. Beckman -- Spatial aspects of population: An overview / Amos H. Hawley -- Overcrowding, isolation, and human behaviour: Exploring the extremes in population distribution / Omer R. Galle and Walter R. Gove -- The organizational components of expanding metropolitan systems / Franklin D. Wilson -- The new pattern of nonmetropolitan population change / Calvin L. Beale and Glenn V. Gufuitt -- Mobility and stratification: An overview / David D. McFarland -- Changes in the socioeconomic stratification of the races / David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser -- Statistical histories of the life cycle of birth cohorts: The transition from schoolboy to adult male / Halliman H. Winsborough -- Some methodological issues in the analysis of longitudianal surveys / Burton Singer and Seymour Spilerman -- The next fifteen years in demographicanalysis / Samuel H. Preston -- Organization of demographic research: Problems of the next decade / Halliman H. Winsborough.

ISBN

• 0126826501
• 9780126826500

LCCN

78606153

OCLC

• ocm04000492
• 4000492
• SCSB-395309

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library