The authors analyze the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state.
Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewerrespondent information.
A critical appraisal of regionalism as a key strategy in Africa's development explaining the failures thus far of attempts at regional integration on the continent.
Der vorliegende Sammelband beinhaltet Beiträge verschiedener Generationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus der Gerontologie, welche die Pluralität von Themen, Zugängen, Theorien und Methoden innerhalb der Alternsforschung repräsentieren.
Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an 'all-middle-class society'.
Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950 provides a detailed analysis of the dramatic population growth and employment trends that shaped California's development during the first half of the 20th century.
In einer biographie- und erinnerungstheoretischen Untersuchung geht Katinka Meyer der Frage nach, wie ostdeutsche Familien an die „Vertreibung“ der Deutschen aus den ehemaligen Ostgebieten erinnern.
Romana Winkler untersucht den Einfluss des Pflegeheimeinzugs sowie ausgewählter Aspekte sozialer Ungleichheit auf die Lebensqualität pflege- und betreuungsbedürftiger älterer Menschen in Österreich.
Jan Brulle shows how poverty risks in Germany between 1992 and 2012 increased concentrated on those with low educational levels, in lower occupational positions, and with precarious employment careers, as the country's welfare state failed to adapt to widening inequalities in households' market incomes.
Argues that sociology should be understood as a population science, focusing on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.
Although the issue of migration has received substantial attention in public debate in most countries of the West, only moderately satisfactory attention has been given in the economic literature.
During the 1990s, Naples left-wing administration sought to tackle the city s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city s cultural and architectural heritage.
First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world.
Problems associated with work-family conflict do not belong to individual families alone, but have a major social and economic impact on the greater community.
This book explores how the current sustained economic slow-down in North America and Europe has increased immigrant vulnerability in the labor market and in their daily lives.
In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung zur materiellen und sozialen Lage der Elementarlehrer in Preußen ist entstanden im Zusammenhang eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projekts zum Thema "Lehrerverbände und Professionalisierung".
In 1992, a summer course 'Demographic Perspectives on Living Arrangements' as well as a one-day workshop 'Recent Issues in Household Modelling' were held in Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
