Model-based demography [electronic resource] : essays on integrating data, technique and theory

• Tác giả: Thomas K Burch
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3319654331
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 304.6 Population
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer Verlag, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 117572
• Chủ đề: 1. Demography--Mathematical models; 2. Demography

Tóm tắt

"The papers in this collection ? most of them previously published ? are the fruits of an intellectual odyssey over the last decades of my career as a sociologist/demographer. Beginning in the late 1980s, longstanding questions about the status of demography as a science came to the surface, and I began to pursue them actively. Looking back, I realize that at some point I became less a demographer and more a demography critic ? cf. art critic or music critic ? and an amateur philosopher of science. My central concern has been with the role and status of theory in demography" -- Preface.