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This open access book describes demography as an autonomous science, not just a branch of applied statistics
Provides a new view of demography, based on 21st century philosophy of science
Points the way toward integration of data, technique and theory
Part of the book series: Demographic Research Monographs (DEMOGRAPHIC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Model-Based View of Demography
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Front Matter
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Some Demographic Models Re-visited
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Demography
- Computer Modeling
- Methodology
- Theory
- Quantitative analysis
- Model Based view of Science
- Open Access
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Sociology and Population Research Group, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Thomas K. Burch
About the author
After completing his graduate work in sociology and demography at the Office of Population
Research, Princeton University, Thomas Burch taught at Marquette, and at Georgetown University, where he helped found the Center for Population Research. From 1970 to 1975 he served in the Demographic Division [Associated Director] of The Population Council. He then joined the University of Western Ontario to help develop a new Ph.D. program in social demography. He was elected President of the Canadian Population Society in 1992-94, and received that organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria and Research Affiliate of the Centre for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington. His main research interests have been fertility, marriage and divorce, household and family structure, and kinship. He has had an abiding interest in demographic theory, and concern over the relative neglect of the
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Model-Based Demography
Book Subtitle: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
Authors: Thomas K. Burch
Series Title: Demographic Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65433-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65432-4Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88027-3Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65433-1Published: 14 October 2017
Series ISSN: 1613-5520
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9286
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 200
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Population and Demography, Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy, Philosophy of Science, Sociological Methods