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Summary
Summary
"An excellent introduction to the study of population and its significance for many of the key social, political, cultural and environmental issues facing the world today. It covers population growth, ageing, migration and mobility, parenting, health inequalities, and much more... The authors do not shy away from areas of continuing debate, providing both sides of an argument and encouraging readers to follow up the original sources"- Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, Centre for Urban, Regional & Development Studies, Newcastle University and Vice President, British Society for Population Studies, 2011-2013Population and Society is an undergraduate introduction to population that explains the latest trends in population studies. The text provides a detailed and completely accessible overview that: situates demographic events - fertility, mortality and migration - within the context of broader social impacts and theorisations like social inequalities, individualisation and life course analysis uses global illustrative examples to demonstrate the importance of data and data interpretation in population studies is illustrated throughout with pedagogic features, like chapter opening summaries, suggestions for further readings and case study examples.
This text will be widely used as the standard and most up-to-date text on population and society for courses across the social sciences.
Author Notes
Clare Holdsworth is Professor of Social Geography at Keele University
Nissa Finney is Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Manchester
Alan Marshall is Research Associate at the University of Manchester
Paul Norman is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds
Table of Contents
About the authors | p. vi |
Acknowledgements | p. vii |
1 Introduction | p. 1 |
2 Transitions: thanking about population over time | p. 8 |
3 Population projections and data | p. 35 |
4 Population structures | p. 50 |
5 Analysing fertility and mortality | p. 71 |
6 Migration | p. 96 |
7 Living arrangements | p. 119 |
8 Family formation | p. 143 |
9 Health inequalities | p. 171 |
10 Population futures | p. 198 |
References | p. 208 |
Index | p. 222 |