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This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics
written from a demographer's perspective. It synthesizes the data
on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary
field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this
area into a coherent whole. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in
addition to demography and sociolinguistics, including sociology,
anthropology, statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and public
policy, the book treats theoretical and applied issues, links
methods and substantive findings, covers both national and
international materials, and provides prehistorical, historical,
and contemporary illustrations. The book treats the theoretical
issue of how the language we use develops socially on a base of
linguistic genetic capacity and the practical issue of how the
intervention of the state and public figures may profoundly alter
the natural evolution of the language. As such, this book will
appeal to a wide range of users, from students to teachers and
practitioners of social demography, sociolinguistics, cultural
anthropology, and particularly to those social scientists
interested in ethnic studies and human migration.
With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and
gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling
fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of
aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology,
gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only
comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide
range of sciences in addition to demography, gerontology, and
epidemiology, including medical sociology, biostatistics, public
policy, bioethics, and molecular biology, the author treats
theoretical and applied issues, links methods and findings, covers
the material internationally, nationally, and locally, and while
focusing on the elderly, treats the entire life course. The
methods, materials, and pespectives of demography and epidemiology
are brought to bear on such topics as the prospects for future
increases in human longevity, the relative contribution of life
style, environment, genetics, and chance in human longevity, the
measurement of the share of healthy years in total life expectancy,
the role of population growth in the rising costs of health care,
and the applications of health demography in serving the health
needs of local communities. The separate chapters systematically
develop the topics of the sources and quality of health data;
mortality, life tables, and the measurement of health status; the
interrelationships of health, on the one hand, and mortality,
fertility, migration, and age structure, on the other; health
conditions in the less developed countries; the concepts and
theories of aging and projections of the aged population; and local
health applications, public health policy, and bioethical issues in
health demography. Given its comprehensiveness, clarity,
interdisciplinary scope, and authencity, this book appeals to a
wide range of users, from students and teachers of medical
sociology, the demography of aging, and public health studies to
practitioners in these areas, both as a text in health demography
and the demography/epidemiology of aging, and as a reference work
in these fields.
This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics
written from a demographer's perspective. It synthesizes the data
on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary
field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this
area into a coherent whole. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in
addition to demography and sociolinguistics, including sociology,
anthropology, statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and public
policy, the book treats theoretical and applied issues, links
methods and substantive findings, covers both national and
international materials, and provides prehistorical, historical,
and contemporary illustrations. The book treats the theoretical
issue of how the language we use develops socially on a base of
linguistic genetic capacity and the practical issue of how the
intervention of the state and public figures may profoundly alter
the natural evolution of the language. As such, this book will
appeal to a wide range of users, from students to teachers and
practitioners of social demography, sociolinguistics, cultural
anthropology, and particularly to those social scientists
interested in ethnic studies and human migration.
With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and
gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling
fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of
aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology,
gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only
comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide
range of sciences in addition to demography, gerontology, and
epidemiology, including medical sociology, biostatistics, public
policy, bioethics, and molecular biology, the author treats
theoretical and applied issues, links methods and findings, covers
the material internationally, nationally, and locally, and while
focusing on the elderly, treats the entire life course. The
methods, materials, and pespectives of demography and epidemiology
are brought to bear on such topics as the prospects for future
increases in human longevity, the relative contribution of life
style, environment, genetics, and chance in human longevity, the
measurement of the share of healthy years in total life expectancy,
the role of population growth in the rising costs of health care,
and the applications of health demography in serving the health
needs of local communities. The separate chapters systematically
develop the topics of the sources and quality of health data;
mortality, life tables, and the measurement of health status; the
interrelationships of health, on the one hand, and mortality,
fertility, migration, and age structure, on the other; health
conditions in the less developed countries; the concepts and
theories of aging and projections of the aged population; and local
health applications, public health policy, and bioethical issues in
health demography. Given its comprehensiveness, clarity,
interdisciplinary scope, and authencity, this book appeals to a
wide range of users, from students and teachers of medical
sociology, the demography of aging, and public health studies to
practitioners in these areas, both as a text in health demography
and the demography/epidemiology of aging, and as a reference work
in these fields.
In contrast to a typical general text in demography, which is
concerned with demographic principles, trends, problems, and
theories, Applied Demography explores the practical issues with
which demographers working for government agencies, private
nonprofit organizations, and businesses deal. It emphasizes the
applications of applied demography in a variety of related
disciplines, such as geography, economics, gerontology, public
policy, law, sociology, public administration, and business
management. The data of these disciplines are taken into account,
as are the methods of statistics and computer sciences. The book
aims to inform the student of the wide range of applications of
demography, including not only narrowly "demographic" situations
but also "nondemographic" situations, such as manufacturing
processes and the dynamics of organizations as a population.
This book is a thorough update of the original "Methods and
Materials of Demography" (1976). Every chapter is new, written
exclusively for this edition. Like the original, "Red Book," the
second edition presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition
of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing
with demographic data. It is concerned with the ways data on
population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce
tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the
significant aspects of the composition and dynamics of populations.
It also sets forth the sources, limitations, underlying
definitions, and bases of classification, as well as the techniques
and methods that have been developed for summarizing and analyzing
the data.
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