Overview
- This textbook defines and describes the field of demography
- Includes hands-on exercises, many graphics, data and examples
- Is designed for undergraduate students as an introduction to demography
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Social Sciences (STSS)
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This textbook presents an overview of the field of demography from a contemporary perspective. Designed as an introductory text for undergraduates and graduates, it lays out the basic concepts, methods, and applications of the field of demography. It describes the unique characteristics of the field, reviews the basic demographic processes, and provides an overview of the analytical techniques utilized by population scientists. It emphasizes the applied nature of demography and includes a chapter on application of demography to real-world problems as well as a discussion of population policy. The text is supplemented by ample tables, graphics, and illustrations that illustrate the concepts being considered. Through including exercises as well as detailed information on the sources of demographic data, this textbook is a must have for undergraduate and graduate students in demography and population studies.
Keywords
- Introduction to demography
- Introduction to population studies
- Demographic processes
- Social characteristics
- Introduction to Demography
- Materials and Methods of Demography
- Population Size, Distribution and Concentration
- Population Composition
- Demographic Data Sources
- Demographic Processes: Fertility
- Demographic Processes: Mortality
- Demographic Processes: Migration
- Population Change
- Population Policy
- U.S. Population Trends
- World Population Trends
- Applied Demography
- graduate and under graduate textbook
- Basic concepts, methods and applications of demography
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard K. Thomas, Ph.D., was trained as a medical sociologist and has been instrumental in the development of the field of health demography. He has taught courses in demography and applied demography and conducted numerous workshops on demographic data. He has authored more than 20 books on health/health care and demography and numerous articles for professional journals, newsletters, and magazines. He has conducted numerous workshops and made dozens of presentations on his research. He has received over two million dollars in NIH funding for demography-related research. He has served on the faculties of several universities and medical schools and is currently an affiliate faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a research associate at the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demography: An Introduction to Population Studies
Authors: Richard K. Thomas
Series Title: Springer Texts in Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56623-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56622-6Published: 13 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56623-3Published: 12 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2730-6135
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6143
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Statistical Theory and Methods