Categories and contexts: anthropological and historical studies in critical demography
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199270576
Date de publication :
18 mars 2004
Dimensions :
24,2 x 16,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
765 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Demography has been associated with a quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways.