Population and demography

On a longtemps cru que les mutations récentes de la famille annonçaient une ère de bonheur pour nos enfants.

In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama.

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.

This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.

Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging societies in the world.

Definitive account of England''s transformation through industrial revolution, from one of the nation''s leading historians.

This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family.

Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans'' political preferences.

The composition of the American population is rapidly changing from a white, male dominated society to one that is so diverse it will soon be without any single, dominant race, ethnicity, or gender.

Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons.

Models help us understand the dynamics of real-world processes by using the computer to mimic the actual forces that are known or assumed to result in a system's behavior.

A study which examines the economic rationale for migration and its effect on agricultural development.

Does your real age match the age you feel?

This book documents challenging consequences aging societies face: fewer workers, stretched pensions, questionable economic sustainability.

In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "e;Ogburn Report,"e; a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States.

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Panel on Historical Demography applies a historical perspective, such as the importance of kinship networks for demographic outcomes later in life, to promote work of contemporary relevance.

The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy.

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.

This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to come primarily from small familiesfamilies of three or fewer children.

Cancer survivors are returning to the workplace in higher numbers than ever before.

Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a major new initiative from the U.

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times.

With the collapse of Demographic Transition Theory, new theories of population must not just be explanations, but should be falsifiable theories which can compute the number of occurrences of marriages and births.

In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world.

This valuable book summarizes recent research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use.

Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years for making life decisions.

While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention-both scholarly and popular-little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s.

This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history.

'Why are you making this about race?

From the Foreword: `The chief aim of this book is to present the reader with an integrated system of methods dealing with geographical statistics (`geostatistics') and their applications.

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena.

This book contains detailed documentation of the CHINAGEM model - a large-scale dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China and its applications.

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires the states to develop a single, computerized voter registration data base (VRD) that is defined, maintained, and administered at the state level.

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history.

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

Immigrants living in US cities face myriad obstacles to accessing quality health care.

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of China was how much they did not know.

A comprehensive examination of social mobility and education in Britain that exposes prevailing misconceptions of social mobility in decline.

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.

This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas.

America's Ranking Among Nations is a compendium of graphic displays revealing America's position among the world's nations, on a wide array of topics ranging from economic, military and environmental matters to family unit demographics.

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants incorporation within American society.

A comprehensive examination of social mobility and education in Britain that exposes prevailing misconceptions of social mobility in decline.

In their annual sessions the various Sections of the Royal Society are accustomed to take up for general discussion a topic of current interest and this gives Fellows and special guests from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities an opportunity for useful communication across the disciplines on an important subject.