Author : Patrick Fisher
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813345960
An examination of how and why various US demographic groups are politically distinct and how these groups' behavior can influence public opinion, policy, and party positioning.
Author : Francesco C. Billari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3790827150
Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour. The book takes a micro-demographic (agent-based) perspective and illustrates the potentialities of computer simulation as an aid in theory building. The chapters of the book, written by leading experts either in demography or in agent-based modelling, address several key questions. Why do we need agent-based computational demography? How can ABCD be applied to the study of migrations, family demography, and historical demography? What are the peculiarities of agent-based models as applied to the demography of human populations? ABCD is of interest to all scientists interested in studying demographic behaviour, as well as to computer scientists and modellers who are looking for a promising field of application.
Author : Dr. Jens Krause
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199679045
The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the field of animal behaviour relatively late compared to many other biological disciplines. Understanding social network structure is of great importance for biologists since the structural characteristics of any network will affect its constituent members and influence a range of diverse behaviours. These include finding and choosing a sexual partner, developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, and engaging in foraging and anti-predator behavior. This novel text provides an overview of the insights that network analysis has provided into major biological processes, and how it has enhanced our understanding of the social organisation of several important taxonomic groups. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing both an overview of the power of the network approach for understanding patterns and process in animal populations, as well as outlining how current methodological constraints and challenges can be overcome. Animal Social Networks is principally aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of ecology, zoology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology but will also be of interest to social scientists.
Author : Tommy Bengtsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2008-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140206733X
Intergenerational research is crucial in understanding long term demographic trends. This book examines the ways kinship affects demographic behavior, including mortality patterns to determine the influence of fertility patterns, the contribution of parents’ longevity, and the affects of a family history of disease. It emphasizes the importance of studies that include and compare other factors related to social organization with information on multi-generational families.
Author : John E. Knodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521892810
This book examines the demographic behaviour of families in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany.
Author : Alaka Malwade Basu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This book illustrates the hypothesis that standard socioeconomic variables can help us understand only a part of demographic behavior as defined by fertility, child mortality, and gender differences in physical well-being.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309133181
The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Author : Claude Diebolt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319446517
This book studies the process of demographic transition which has played a key role in the economic development of Western countries. The special focus is on France, which constitutes the first clear case of fertility decline in Europe. The book analyzes the reasons behind this phenomenon by examining the evolution of demographic variables in France over the past two hundred years. To better understand the reasons of the changing patterns of demographic behavior, the authors investigate the development of the female labor force, study educational investments, and explore the evolution of gender roles and relations.
Author : Dudley L. Poston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387257020
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. The volume's 30 chapters cover the full range of conceptual, empirical, disciplinary, and applied approaches to the study of demographic phenomena. This book is the first effort to assess the entire field since Hauser and Duncan's 1959 classic, The Study of Population. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades. They represent a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives as well as interests in both basic and applied research.
Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299121945
Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change represents an unprecedented interdisciplinary effort to discover how changes in family life and demographic behavior actually occurred in this crucial period, and how people's lives were affected. The book takes issue with a number of the most influential demographic and sociological theories dealing with the evolution of the Western family and the factors responsible for fertility decline. As in so many other parts of Europe, the northern Italian community of Casalecchio experienced massive social and economic changes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characterized by sharecropping agriculture and large, complex family households, the community faced the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and dramatic political change. Making use of unusually rich archival sources to reconstruct the live of 19,000 people who lived in Casalecchio during this period, Kertzer and Hogan challenge many current generalizations regarding the emergence of modern European society.
