SOCI-131 Population Dynamics

Professor Wickham-Crowley

This is a survey course in social demography. We will cover a "traditional-yet-expanded" sequence of topics: population theory and the demographic transition; death rates, birth rates, and migration (and the causes and consequences of each of them, including changes therein); sex ratios; birth-order effects; issues of population, development, and ecology; and population policies. We will deal with some modestly technical issues--population pyramids, life tables and their elements, and age-specific rates--and become comfortable with a variety of demographic measures. The course will also include historical readings (e.g., on infanticide and on sex ratios). Demography is a deeply comparative field, often involving the study of many societies and time-periods, and our course will be no exception, including comparisons in the present, the recent past, and some longer-term historical analyses. Fall.

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• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
• 2006-2007 Fall and Spring
• 2009-2010 Fall and Spring
• 2011-2012 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring

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