Population Studies And Development From Theory To Fieldwork
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Population Studies And Development From Theory To Fieldwork
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Author : Véronique Petit
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-30
Population Studies And Development From Theory To Fieldwork written by Véronique Petit and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Social Science categories.
This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On the basis of four decades of field research (1985-2015), it questions the rationality of the actors, how culture shapes socio-demographic behaviours, in a context of modernity and globalisation. More specifically, it casts new light on the interactions of individuals, families, networks and local communities with the State and its population policy.
Population And Development
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Author : W.T.S. Gould
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-08
Population And Development written by W.T.S. Gould and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-08 with Science categories.
The new edition of Population and Development offers an up-to-date perspective on one of the critical issues at the heart of the problems of development for all countries, and especially those that seek to implement major economic and social change: the reflexive relationships between a country’s population and its development. How does population size, distribution, age structure and skill base affect development patterns and prospects? How has global development been affected by regional population change? Retaining the structure of the well-received first edition, the book has been substantially revised and updated. The opening chapters of the book establish the theoretical and historical basis for examining the basic reflexive relationship, with exploration of the Malthusian perspective and its critics to examine how population change affects development, and exploration of the Demographic Transition Model and its critics to examine how, why and to what extent development drives population change. These are followed by empirically rich chapters on each of the main components of population change – mortality, fertility, internal and international migration, age structures and skill base – each elaborating key ideas with detailed and contrasting case studies from all regions of the developing world. There are concluding and more integrative discussions on population policies and global population futures. Bringing together Population Studies, Development Studies and Geography, the new edition of Population and Development is a key resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of programmes with specialist modules on population change. There is a large bibliography, with major new sections identifying a wide range of online resources for further study. Each chapter contains a reading guide with discussion questions. The text is enlivened by a number of case studies from around the world, most of which are new or have been substantially revised. Written by a leading international scholar in population, the book successfully integrates cutting-edge academic research with the focus and efforts of international development agencies.
Methodology For Population Studies And Development
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Author : Kuttan Mahadevan
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 1993-05-25
Methodology For Population Studies And Development written by Kuttan Mahadevan and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-25 with Social Science categories.
This volume examines aspects of research methodology related to assessing the interaction between development and population behaviour with all its social ramifications. The contributors approach development from a broad holistic perspective and present interdisciplinary methods for the study of population processes with emphasis on both theory and practice.
Methodology For Population Studies And Development
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Author : K. Mahadevan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Methodology For Population Studies And Development written by K. Mahadevan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Demografía - Metodología categories.
Social and economic development are areas of primary and current concern to both the governments and peoples of the developing world. It is, therefore, essential that the diverse outcomes of developmental activities are constantly monitored and evaluated both to minimise the negative and unintended consequences of such efforts and to ensure that they are increasingly effective. To do this, it is necessary to develop appropriate research designs and methods. This pioneering volume explores various aspects of research methodology related to assessing the interaction between development and population behaviour with all its social ramifications. The contributors approach development in a broad holistic perspective and present interdisciplinary methods for the study of population processes. In addition, they stress the importance of both theory and methodology showing how they are, in essence, two sides of the same coin. The three essays in the first section discuss the various available theoretical-analytical frameworks in the field of social demography and present a scheme of causal models. The nine papers in Part II deal with interdisciplinary methods for population research drawn from anthropology, geography, mathematics, psychology, sociology community health, and systems analysis. A holistic and comprehensive model of development, which emphasises the quality of life, is presented in Part III. In the next section, various data analysis techniques, methods of household projection, and ways of estimating old age survival are presented. The final section is devoted to action research, an essential aspect of all developmental programmes. Covering a wide range of conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues relating to population and development processes in an interdisciplinary framework this book will be essential reading for students and teachers in the fields of demography, anthropology, statistics, sociology, psychology, development studies, community health and social science research methods.
Counting Populations Understanding Societies
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Author : Véronique Petit
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-02-11
Counting Populations Understanding Societies written by Véronique Petit and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Social Science categories.
The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development. The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography centered on the ‘core of procedures and references’ and a more open form of demography, generally referred to as Population Studies. Many rapprochements, missed opportunities and isolated attempts marked the disciplinary history of anthropology and demography, both disciplines being founded on distinct and highly differentiated traditions and practices. Moreover, the role and the place assigned to epistemology differ significantly in ethnology and demography. Yet, anthropology and demography provide complementary models and research instruments and this book shows that neither discipline can afford to overlook their respective contributions. Based on research conducted in West Africa over more than twenty years, it is a defense of field demography that makes case for a continuum ranging from the initial conception of fieldwork and research to its effective implementation and to data analysis. Changes in behaviors relating to fertility, poverty or migration cannot be interpreted without invoking the cultural factor at some stage. Representations in their collective and individual dimensions also fit into the extended explanatory space of demography.
Youth At The Margins
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Author : ELENA SÁNCHEZ-MONTIJANO
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-23
Youth At The Margins written by ELENA SÁNCHEZ-MONTIJANO and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-23 with Political Science categories.
The 2011 Arab uprisings led to a great proliferation of studies on the situations in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean, with particular attention given to their young people, whose role was particularly central. Eight years on, in-depth exploration is still needed of the conditions in which millions of (mainly young) people demanded change. In this context, this volume examines the state and diversity of the forms of socioeconomic, political and cultural marginalization facing the region's young men and women, as well as the strategies and routes of contestation by which they escape them. Through the interdisciplinary empiricism of this book, based on the results emerging from the SAHWA Project (funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, grant agreement no 613174), we aspire to build a complex description and analysis of the current situation of the Arab Mediterranean youth. The aim is to fathom out young people’s patterns, agency and living conditions, focusing on the relational character of the juvenile worlds actively constructed by themselves. The authors explore the main trends that are reflected in the social strategies, cultural constructions and changes within the Arab youth population, and whether the creation of new lifestyles and the emergence of youth cultures are an indicator of sociopolitical transitions. To answer all these questions the researchers have conducted a comprehensive study in five Arab Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia. Based on mixed method research the data collection is composed of two primary sources: the SAHWA Youth Survey 2016 (2017), in which 10,000 young people were interviewed; and the SAHWA Ethnographic Fieldwork 2015, involving more than 200 young people.
Handbook Of Population
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Author : Dudley L. Poston
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Handbook Of Population written by Dudley L. Poston and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Mathematics categories.
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.
Population And Development
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Author : Tim Dyson
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Population And Development written by Tim Dyson and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Social Science categories.
The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic. Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe through to the rest of the world. Tim Dyson examines how, while the phenomenon continues to cause unsustainable population growth with serious economic and environmental implications, its processes have underlain previous periods of sustained economic growth, helped to liberate women from the domestic domain, and contributed greatly to the rise of modern democracy. This accessible yet scholarly analysis will enable any student or expert in development studies to understand complex and vital demographic theory.
Categories And Contexts
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Author : Simon Szreter
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-03-18
Categories And Contexts written by Simon Szreter and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-18 with Social Science categories.
Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways. First, it examines the historical and political circumstances in which such categories had their provenance, and, second, it reassesses their uncritical applications over space and time in a diverse range of empirical case studies, encouraging throughout a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue involving anthropologists, demographers, historians, and sociologists. This volume seeks to examine the political complexities that lie at the heart of population studies by focusing on category formation, category use, and category critique. It shows that this takes the form of a dialectic between the needs for clarity of scientific and administrative analysis and the recalcitrant diversity of the social contexts and human processes that generate population change. The critical reflections of each chapter are enriched by meticulous ethnographic fieldwork and historical research drawn from every continent. This volume, therefore, exemplifies a new methodology for research in population studies, one that does not simply accept and re-use the established categories of population science but seeks critically and reflexively to explore, test, and re-evaluate their meanings in diverse contexts. It shows that for demography to realise its full potential it must urgently re-examine and contextualize the social categories used today in population research.
The Methods And Uses Of Anthropological Demography
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Author : Alaka Malwade Basu
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1998-09-24
The Methods And Uses Of Anthropological Demography written by Alaka Malwade Basu and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-24 with Social Science categories.
This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of `Anthropological Demography', and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demographers and foremost anthropologists, all stressing the necessity of a shared agenda for each discipline to progress successfully and avoid marginalization. While the unique research and personal satisfaction afforded by `participant observation' is described, the book also highlights the potential contribution to the understanding of demographic events of much more than the field methods of traditional anthropology. In particular, it stresses the insights possible from qualitative focus group interviews, from longitudinal studies and from a greater interest in `armchair' anthropology, in which demographers complement their quantitative findings with qualitative information and understanding gleaned from a careful reading of the anthropological literature, in the form of both ethnographies and anthropological theories. In addition, it stresses the larger world of the ideal anthropological demographer: a world that includes the cultural context of course, but also takes into account the historical and political forces that condition so much individual behaviour. But the book is also a critical venture. It includes therefore considerable discussion of the common limits of the purely anthropological approach for understanding demographic events and processes, especially from a larger policy perspective, at the same time as it emphasizes the crucial role of the anthropological approach to designing policy that is potentially effective as well as socially and culturally sensitive. It reiterates the often complementary role of anthropological demography and also discusses some specific questions in demographic research which it does not as yet seem to have the capacity to illuminate. The book is aimed primarily at demographers wishing to broaden their research agenda and deepen their understanding of demographic behaviour, but it also hopes to convert mainstream anthropologists to take a more active interest in demographic issues. Both disciplines, after all, have a common intense interest in the kind of life and death issues that they can fruitfully explore together or by using one another's research methods.