Demographic Discipline System Research

Author: Wu Cangping
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book emphasizes that the research object of demography is population variables, eliminating the misconception that demography only studies family planning. It clarifies that demography studies both the total population and subpopulations, being a quantitative science, an empirical science, and a methodological science. It opens the way for demography to study the quantity, quality, structure, migration, and distribution of the population, and provides empirical theories and methods for interdisciplinary research. This book argues that demography is an indispensable science, serving as an essential textbook and monograph for demography research and talent training. This book organizes the relatively mature scientific knowledge of modern demography into 25 thematic studies, each forming a separate chapter. Each chapter essentially outlines a branch of demography, making this book a concise version of an encyclopedia of demography. This book emphasizes that the research object of demography is population variables, eliminating the misconception that demography only studies family planning. It clarifies that demography studies both the total population and subpopulations, being a quantitative science, an empirical science, and a methodological science. It opens the way for demography to study the quantity, quality, structure, migration, and distribution of the population, and provides empirical theories and methods for interdisciplinary research. This book argues that demography is an indispensable science, serving as an essential textbook and monograph for demography research and talent training. This book organizes the relatively mature scientific knowledge of modern demography into 25 thematic studies, each forming a separate chapter. Each chapter essentially outlines a branch of demography, making this book a concise version of an encyclopedia of demography.