53:20001 Harris,
Marvin; Ross, Eric B. Death, sex, and fertility:
population regulation in preindustrial and developing societies.
ISBN 0-231-06270-2. LC 86-18401. 1987. 227 pp. Columbia University
Press: New York, New York. In Eng.
"Analyzing data from
hunter-gatherers, preindustrial agriculturalists, early states, and
Europe from the Greco-Roman period through the industrial revolution,
the authors combine anthropological and demographic perspectives to
present a consistent and provocative theory of population growth and
fertility. In a far-reaching examination of factors influencing
fertility rates, they determine that preindustrial cultural means of
population control, relying heavily on control of mortality, were
probably much more effective than previously credited. They suggested
that this has considerable import for contemporary demographic debate,
especially as it concerns the Third World." The authors go on to
criticize current U.S. population policy, which they categorize as
"free market demographics", and call for "responsible measures to
prevent unwanted births, which would harmonize fertility more humanely
with economic and social needs."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:20002 Armitage,
R. I. English regional fertility and mortality patterns,
1975-1985. Population Trends, No. 47, Spring 1987. 16-23 pp.
London, England. In Eng.
"The biennial sub-national population
projections use assumptions about future fertility and mortality in
local areas of England. When making these assumptions past
relationships between local and corresponding national rates for broad
age (by sex) groups are studied. This article highlights differences
between areas, and some changes which have occurred in the regional
pattern of fertility and mortality over recent
years."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:20003 Brown,
Lester R.; Jacobson, Jodi L. Our demographically divided
world. Worldwatch Paper, No. 74, ISBN 0-916468-75-5. LC 86-51475.
Dec 1986. 54 pp. Worldwatch Institute: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
The
authors develop the theme that the world is being divided in two by
demographic forces. "Nearly half the world, including the industrial
countries and China, has completed or nearly completed the demographic
transition. These countries, where fertility is at or below the
replacement level, have either established a balance between births and
deaths or they are in the process of doing so. In the other half,
where birth rates remain high, rapid population growth is beginning to
overwhelm local life-support systems in many countries, leading to
ecological deterioration and declining living standards." The focus of
the report is on the problems faced by countries that have not yet
experienced the demographic transition.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:20004 Morrison,
Peter A. Continuity and change across the population
sciences. Pub. Order No. P-7281. Dec 1986. iv, 21 pp. Rand
Corporation: Santa Monica, California. In Eng.
This paper is based
on a briefing prepared for the National Advisory Child Health and Human
Development Council concerning the breadth and coverage of population
research in the United States. The author first describes the
population sciences and what unifies them. Next, he provides examples
to illustrate the scientific advances being made. Finally, he
considers directions in which research is headed, with emphasis on the
growing interconnections among the population centers receiving NICHD
support.
Publisher's address: 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138,
Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:20005 Abeysinghe,
Tilak. Rising needs and falling family size: implications
from Marx on demographic transition. Review of Social Economy,
Vol. 44, No. 3, Dec 1986. 281-93 pp. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Eng.
The author analyzes the decline in fertility and growing preference
for smaller families that has occurred during the course of the
demographic transition in today's industrialized countries. The
analysis is based on an interpretation of Marx's views on population
and wage labor, and concentrates on the reproductive behavior of the
wage-earning class. The author concludes that workers reduced their
family size as part of a survival strategy in order to maintain the
value of their labor power.
Location: Princeton University
Library (PF).
53:20006 Fedorov, G.
M. A geo-demographic typology. [Geodemograficheskaya
tipologiya.] LC 85-194751. 1985. 151 pp. Izdatel'stvo Leningradskogo
Universiteta: Leningrad, USSR. In Rus.
This study presents
theoretical and methodological concepts concerning the study of
geo-demography in the USSR. Geo-demography is concerned with the
qualitative aspects of a given population and their relationship to
various socioeconomic factors. In this approach, the region under
study is classified according to various typologies using methods
evolved from socioeconomic geography. Some examples from the USSR are
provided.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
53:20007 Lachapelle,
Rejean. An extension of the notion of the stationary
population: low fertility and compensating immigration. [Une
extension de la notion de population stationnaire: faible fecondite et
immigration compensatrice.] Cahiers Quebecois de Demographie, Vol. 15,
No. 2, Oct 1986. 279-86 pp. Montreal, Canada. In Fre.
The author
attempts to summarize recent studies concerning the concept of
population replacement, particularly focusing on the role of
immigration in the situation of below-replacement-level fertility. A
stationary population framework is extended to analyze the current
situation in Quebec.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
53:20008 Sharma, A.
K. Social inequality and demographic processes. 1985.
x, 166 pp. Mittal Publications: Delhi, India. In Eng.
The
relationship between social inequality and demographic processes is
explored with particular reference to India. The main theme is that
demographic transition theory fails to explain recent demographic
trends in those developing countries in which mortality has stabilized
at relatively high levels and there is resistance to family planning.
The author concludes that the main cause of the stalling of the
demographic transition process is to be found in the role of the state
and the dynamics of the social structure and that "demographic trends
will depend more on the changes in social structure, land reforms, and
response of the formal governing system to the needs of the
underprivileged sections of the society, rather than on the health and
family planning policies."
Publisher's address: B-2/19-B, Lawrence
Road, Delhi 110 035, India.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
53:20009 Bozon,
Michel. The history and sociology of a symbolic attribute,
the Christian name. [Histoire et sociologie d'un bien symbolique,
le prenom.] Population, Vol. 42, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1987. 83-98 pp. Paris,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
Recent studies concerning
Christian names are reviewed. The author notes the interdisciplinary
nature of research on this topic, involving anthropology, sociology,
and history. The geographic focus is on France.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:20010 Caldwell,
John; Caldwell, Pat; Caldwell, Bruce. Anthropology and
demography: the mutual reinforcement of speculation and research.
Current Anthropology, Vol. 28, No. 1, Feb 1987. 25-43 pp. Chicago,
Illinois. In Eng.
"Most demographic theory attempts to explain
changes in fertility and mortality, and much of it rests on
anthropological assumptions. Yet the scale and quality of the
anthropological work designed to establish, modify, or refute these
assumptions have been trivial compared with the need. Where the ideas
of demographers have attracted the interest of anthropologists, the
result has more often been a stimulus to further theorizing than to
investigation in the field. A fundamental problem is that demographic
and anthropological theory have frequently fed on each other, each
discipline accepting ideas which emerge from the other less skeptically
than it would the ideas of its own members. This paper substantiates
this charge with regard to two of a variety of possible themes, namely,
the pre-modern deliberate control of fertility and the related concept
of 'primitive affluence.' It goes on to consider the value of existing
anthropological work in areas in which the authors are interested as
demographers, to outline their experience as demographers attempting
quasi-anthropological work, and to identify areas in which
anthropological work is currently most needed for an understanding of
demographic change and stability."
Author's address: Department of
Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
53:20011 Cieslak,
Marii. Demography: methods of analysis and
projections. [Demografia: metody analizy i prognozowania.] ISBN
83-01-05305-4. 1984. 273 pp. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe: Warsaw,
Poland. In Pol.
This is a collective work by various authors
intended as a general introduction to the methods used in demography.
Chapters are included on population growth and the history of
demography, the general characteristics of analytic methods used in
demography, population characteristics, marriage and divorce,
fertility, mortality, migration, population reproduction, and methods
of population projection. The primary geographic focus is on
Poland.
Location: New York Public Library.
53:20012 Kiefl,
Walter; Heilig, Gerhard. Demographic teaching at
universities in the Federal Republic of Germany: first results of a
new survey. [Bevolkerungswissenschaftliche Lehre an Universitaten
in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: erste Ergebnisse einer neuen
Erhebung.] Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Bevolkerungswissenschaft,
Mitteilungen, Vol. 65, Aug 1985. 35-56 pp. Berlin, Germany, Federal
Republic of. In Ger.
Results are presented from a survey of
demographic teaching at universities in the Federal Republic of Germany
between 1981 and 1985. The survey covered 1,128 courses, including
those with a narrow demographic focus and those with a broader,
interdisciplinary approach. Information is provided on the type of
course, weekly number of hours, academic department, and demographic
topics covered.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
53:20013 Lwanga, S.
K.; Tye, Cho-Yook. Teaching health statistics: twenty
lesson and seminar outlines. ISBN 92-4-156090-8. 1986. viii, 230
pp. World Health Organization [WHO]: Geneva, Switzerland. In Eng.
"The present set of outlines has been prepared in response to a
recommendation of a WHO Interregional Conference on Teaching Statistics
to Medical Students, held in Karachi in 1978, and the topics covered
form an internationally acceptable standard basic curriculum for
teaching health statistics to medical students. The lessons and
seminars highlight fundamental concepts of probability and ways of
thinking that are useful to medical students, and are meant for
selective use by teachers of statistics in preparing their courses."
The three substantive parts concern statistical principles and methods;
health statistics, including demography and vital statistics; and
statistics in medicine. Topics covered include the use of censuses and
birth and death registers as sources of health data, mortality
measurement, and population dynamics.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:20014 Pacione,
Michael. Population geography: progress and
prospect. Croom Helm Progress in Geography Series, ISBN
0-7099-4045-9. LC 86-6210. 1986. 322 pp. Croom Helm: Dover, New
Hampshire/London, England. In Eng.
"This collection of original
essays is designed to encapsulate the major themes and recent
developments in a number of areas of central importance in population
geography. The volume is a direct response to the need for a text
which reviews the progress and current state of the subject and which
provides a reference point for future developments in population
geography." Topics covered include theory and methodology, the British
and U.S. censuses, global fertility and mortality trends, population
policies, international and internal migration, turnaround migration,
intra-urban mobility, and population modeling.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
53:20015 Universita
di Roma. Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche (Rome, Italy).
Demographic science and its teaching in Italy. IUSSP Papers,
No. 28, 1985. 70 pp. International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population [IUSSP]: Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
This report concerns a
conference on the teaching of demography and the training of
demographers in Italy, which was held in Rome, Italy, February 14-16,
1985, in honor of Nora Federici, the distinguished Italian demographer
in her last year of university activity. The report first examines the
development of demography and its relationship to other social
sciences. Next, it presents the results of a survey on the teaching of
demography and training of demographers in Italy. Consideration is
also given to demography and the professions and to the dissemination
of demographic information.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
53:20016
Wertheimer-Baletic, Alica. Demography: population
and economic development. [Demografija: stanovnistvo i ekonomski
razvitak.] Ekonomska Biblioteka, Vol. 16, No. 1-2-3, 1982. xi, 462 pp.
Informator: Zagreb, Yugoslavia. In Scr.
This is a general textbook
on demography, with the emphasis on the relationship between
demographic factors and socioeconomic development. Topics covered
include demography as a scientific discipline, population theory from
Malthus to Marx, historical aspects of population development,
population movements (natural growth and migration), age and sex
structure of populations, measuring economic and demographic
development, the economic characteristics of population and
socioeconomic development, and population and labor force policies.
The focus is worldwide, with particular reference to
Yugoslavia.
Location: New York Public Library.
