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Demography in the age of the postmodern /
"Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularily...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | New perspectives on anthropological and social demography ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularily the absence of a strong critical tradition and its isolation from recent theoretical developments in other social sciences. In this study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy use the lens of postmodernism to structure a critical analysis of the field of demography. Paying particular attention to the fundamental epistemologies and methodologies that currently underlie the field, they explore how postmodern perspectives might serve to energize the field and how demography could be enhanced by the introduction of insights from other social sciences. Drawing on examples of new kinds of research in demography and related fields, this is an important new book that seeks to reinvigorate the field of demography."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-188) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511674945 0511674945 9780511671692 0511671695 9781139165204 1139165208 1107137969 9781107137967 1282486845 9781282486843 9786612486845 6612486848 0511673752 9780511673757 0511670419 9780511670411 0511672969 9780511672965 |