Demography category: 971 books
Destination Italy
Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and...
No Country for Old Maids?
Talking About the ‘Man Drought’
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor CattonIn 2013, there were over 66,000 more...
Rewriting Homeless Identity
Writing as Coping in an Urban Homeless Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Rewriting Homeless Identity: Writing as Coping in an Urban Homeless Community focuses on the identities of homeless writers, with initially limited or no specialized training in writing, at a homeless community church. Through an ethnographic, two-year study, author Jeremy Godfrey hosted and participated...
Inequalities of Love
College-Educated Black Women and the Barriers to Romance and Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, and have children. While conventional wisdom suggests that all women, regardless of race, must sacrifice romance and family for advanced educations and...
The Sociology of Generations
New Directions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young. Reflecting on Mannheim’s seminal essay ‘The Problem of Generations’,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In their annual sessions the various Sections of the Royal Society are accustomed to take up for general discussion a topic of current interest and this gives Fellows and special guests from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities an opportunity for useful communication across...
The Kopara
Swamp ploughs, saw-blades and slate boards
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
As a young teacher graduate, Brian Pearson and his family move to North Westland in New Zealand. He becomes the sole teacher in a small sawmilling settlement in the remote valley just west of the main divide known as the Kopara. Brian also explores the historical struggles of the pioneer settlers...
Labor Struggle in the Post Office: From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining
From Selective Lobbying to Collective Bargaining
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future.
War, Violence, and Population
Making the Body Count
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Grounded in theory and research, this book offers a spatial perspective on how and why populations are regulated and disciplined by mass violence—and why these questions matter for scholars concerned about social justice. James Tyner focuses on how states and other actors use acts of brutality to...
by Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective....
Elephants In the Volkswagen
Facing The Tough Questions About Our Overcrowded Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far? How can an optimum population be identified and achieved, and how can we confront the problems now facing our overcrowded country? The Negative Population Growth group put these questions...
by Rivke Jaffe (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Caribbean cities are a unique yet underexposed phenomenon. Their distinctiveness results from a combination of interrelated factors including a history of slavery, development under the hemispheric hegemony of the United States and spatial limitations imposed by the setting of most Caribbean urban...
by Paul Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book explores the discourses of bio-medicine (ie. Family Planning), nationalism and citizenship specifically in the Philippines. Little has been researched into how the biomedical discourse has helped constitute the nature of citizenship of the Filipino for the purpose of building a nation-State;...
by Robert P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Explore how America’s diverse and fluid religious landscape influenced the outcome of the 2012 election in Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Survey. This annual survey delves into the intricacies of American values, with a particular emphasis on the "Catholic vote" and the religiously...