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The study of populations, including their size, structure and
transformations. Overview of population processes: How populations grow and change over
time - fertility, mortality, and migration.
Demography deals with human populations; the statistical analysis of births, deaths,
migrations, disease, fertility, growth and economic issues, as illustrating the conditions
of life in communities.
Social demography is an area of inquiry which seeks to understand the
causes and consequences of population and demographic change by examining sociological and
also economic variables.
Louisiana Population Data Center - About LPDC Faculty & Staff Services &
Functions Office of Community Services Survey Research Lab Sociology Dept. Page LPDC Data
Products Links to Other Sociology Resources Links to Other Research Cent. - lapop.lsu.edu/
Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania - Describes the center's research
of population growth, migration, fertility and economic issues. Features data sets and
course descriptions. - lexis.pop.upenn.edu/
Population Research Center - An interdisciplinary research center designed to
facilitate high-quality population research conducted by economists, sociologists, and
other population scientists at the University of Chicago - spc.uchicago.edu/prc
Population Research Institute The Pennsylvania State University PRI Research Faculty
Research Interests - athens.pop.psu.edu/admincore/resint.cfm
Sociology of Population Section - The purpose of this section is to foster the
development of the study of population within the context of sociology. -
asanet.org/sections/populat.html
Australian Centre for Population Research - acpr.edu.au/
Internet Access to UN Information by Research Topic: Population and Demography -
library.yale.edu/un/un3b8.htm
Population Research Unit, PRU - an introduction - The population Research Unit is a
section of the Department of Sociology at the University of Helsinki in Finland. (The
Department of Sociology belongs to the Faculty of Social Sciences.) The head of the Unit
is professor Tapani Valkonen. - valt.helsinki.fi/sosio/pru/
Population Index On The Web - Office of Population Research, Princeton University -
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Population
Studies and Demography - Abstracts
Connections: Demography and Sociology in Twentieth Century Canada
Sylvia T. Wargon
Abstract: Specific areas are highlighted in which demography can be shown to have
benefited the conduct of sociological research, and the sociology departments in Canadian
universities housing demography programs and courses from the 1960s. These specific areas
include: demographys empirical, statistical and methodological features, its
international reach, its interdisciplinary dimension, its planning and policy-making
realms, and lastly, the initiatives taken to enhance demographys role as a national
discipline in Canada. Despite the effects of the 1990s economic recession and what
appeared to be a drop in student interest, it is to be hoped that demography will continue
to inform Canadas social sciences in general and sociology in particular as the
twenty first century unfolds.
Implications of economic reform and spatial mobility for fertility in Vietnam
MICHAEL J. WHITE, YANYI K. DJAMBA & DANG NGUYEN ANH
Abstract. Vietnam has registered a dramatic decline in fertility during the last decades.
While the causes of such a sustained decline are still not well documented, many observers
believe that government policies adopted in the 1980s have contributed to lower fertility.
This article focuses on the implications of the Doi Moi program of market reforms on
fertility, taking into account the influences of migration and population policy. The
analysis is based on a sequential logit model of birth histories of ever married women
interviewed in Vietnam in 1997. The results show a substantial decline in fertility since
the Doi Moi program was introduced. The disruptive effects of migration are less
pronounced, although migrants generally exhibit lower childbearing rates, and a somewhat
different pattern of parity progression. We argue that the economic reforms of 1986, and
the two-child policy initiated two years later, have reinforced Vietnamese womens
desire for smaller families.
"Europe, Africa, and International Migration: An Uncomfortable Triangle of
Interests" - Kimberly A. Hamilton - (Issued May 1997) - Arguing that
research on migration and the state has focused primarily on receiving states, this paper
places sending and receiving states in a dynamic historical context within which states
strive to protect political, economic, and socio-cultural interests. This framework is
applied to the Euro-African migration system and leads to three primary findings. First,
migration flows from Africa have diversified in terms of origins and destinations and no
longer necessarily follow patterns of colonial relations. Such a trend calls into question
the efficacy of bilateral responses. Second, African states have clearly demonstrated
interests in managing emigration and return migration and need to be considered as
partners in policy responses. Third, African migrant communities are exerting greater
independence vis-à-vis sending and receiving states. This diversification and growing
independence poses interesting challenges for sending and receiving state policy in the
Euro-African migration system. - pstc.brown.edu/papers/wp-1997/97-02ab.html
War, Famine, and Female Migration in Ethiopia, 1960 - 1989
Betemariam Berhanu and Michael White - Brown University.
Introduction: Few other events disrupt the social order as much as do civil war and
famine. Their catastrophic nature compromises social scientists ability to measure
and understand them as the investigator often must work with piecemeal archival,
journalistic, or eyewitness accounts. Direct and indirect measures of mortality and
fertility give some sense of the scale of the conflict and disruption but offer only an
incomplete view of the pattern of social dislocation.1 Combat and related
social strife produce many secondary behavioral responses, which often result in long-term
consequences.
In this article we draw on ex post demographic data (material collected for an unrelated
purpose) in an effort to
elucidate the social response to civil strife in Ethiopia, a country severely affected in
recent decades by war, civil strife,
and famine. We test our ability to make such indirect inferences, knowing that direct
surveys and data will never be
assembled. Our concentration is on demographic data and the demographic outcome
(population redistribution) in order to
identify the social processes linked to the observed demographic behavior. In our attempt
to reveal underlying patterns in
the face of a number of confounding factors, we employ a series of techniques that lead to
discrete-time hazard models for
retrospective data.
We find that these indirect efforts can reveal much about ordinary residents
behavioral responses to civil strife and
the disruption in food security, and we can quantitatively link increases and decreases in
urban migration to policies of
political regimes. There is evidence that urban in-migration usually increases during
periods of armed conflict, when
people seek safety, but in Ethiopia it declined measurably during a period of an
authoritarian crackdown called the Red
Terror. Moreover, although famine might be expected to generate a net permanent
relocation to well-supplied urban
areas, we find that in Ethiopia this is not the case. In fact, Ethiopias capital
city, Addis Ababa, became a less attractive
destination over time, contrary to many theories of urban development. In sum, our efforts
provide a way to understand
some of the behavioral responses to cataclysmic events.
Judging Not Only by Color: Ethnicity, Nativity, and Neighborhood Attainment
Michael J. White, Brown University
Sharon Sassier, Ohio State University
Objective. We examine hypotheses derived from theories of structural assimilation and
spatial mobility to study the residential attainment of white ethnics, blacks, Asians, and
Hispanics in the United States. We examine how immigrant status, ethnicity, and individual
and family characteristics predict socioeconomic neighborhood outcome.
Methods. We extend previous studies in several ways. First, we develop the concept and
measurement of residential attainment as a neighborhood or tract-based outcome, and we
examine this in a regression-based framework. Second, we expand ethnicity to twentyeight
distinct groups. Third, we measure directly the impact of intermarriage on
residential outcomes. Results. Our empirical findings show that immigrant status and
ethnicity, often implicated but not always kept conceptually distinct in discussions of
assimilation, exert different effects across ethnic groups. We find that intermarriage
does matter, as minority group householders with Anglo spouses gain access to
higher-status neighborhoods, net of their personal socioeconomic status. Finally and
notably, ethnic groups differ in the returns to personal socioeconomic traits in this
process of neighborhood attainment. Conclusions. Ethnic background dominates immigrant
status in predicting residential outcomes. Furthermore, the process of assimilation varies
noticeably within ethnic groups. Direct all correspondence to Michael J. White, Population
Studies and Training Center, Box 1916, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 (e-mail:
MichaeL_White@brown.edu).
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