Studies in population : proceedings of the annual meeting of the Population Association of America at Princeton, New Jersey, May 1949 /

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Population Association of America. The contributors are: S.L. Wolfbein, P.H. Jacobson, C. Tietze, I. Taeuber, J.C. Russell, W.J. Gibbons, S.J.K. Davis, R. Bra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Population Association of America Princeton University
Otros Autores: Mair, George F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1949.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Demography.
Fertility.
Food supply.
Birth control.
Demography
Fertility
Food Supply
Population Control
Research Design > methods
Démographie.
Fécondité.
Aliments > Approvisionnement.
Régulation des naissances.
demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Food supply
Birth control
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I. Application of demographic data to current problems
  • Total marital dissolutions in the United States: relative importance of mortality and divorce / P.H. Jacobson
  • Discussion / S.C. Newman
  • The length of working life (summary) / S.L. Wolfbein
  • Discussion / A.J. Jaffe
  • Report on a series of illegal abortions induced by physicians / C. Tietze.
  • Section II. Tools for demographic research
  • Our current demographic inventory: review of data from the current population survey (summary) / A.R. Eckler
  • Recent proposals for modifying the net reproduction rate (summary) / T.J. Woofter
  • Discussion / J. Hajnal
  • Washington's state-wide system of census tracts and census divisions / C.F. Schmid
  • Discussion / C.E. Batschelet.
  • Section III. Resources for the world's people
  • Population and scarce food resources / J.D. Black
  • Soil resources and the world's potential food supply / R. Brandfield
  • Management of resources in the Tennessee Valley / G.R. Clapp
  • Some reflections on world population and food supply during the next few decades / W.S. Thompson.
  • Section IV. Value systems and human fertility
  • The reproduction mores of the Asian peasant / I.B. Taeuber
  • Demographic values in the Middle Ages / J.C. Russell
  • The Catholic value system in relation to human fertility / W.J. Gibbons
  • Values, population, and the supernatural: a critique / K. Davis.
  • Section V. Future course of research in fertility
  • Physiological factors and their control / H.C. Taylor
  • An approach to research in overcoming cultural barriers to family limitation / C. Senior
  • Needed research on fertility of Negroes / I. De A. Reid
  • The future course of research in fertility: measures and methods / W.H. Grabill
  • Some aspects of research in differential fertility / R. Freedman.
  • The psychiatric approach to research interviewing / M. Woodside.

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