Demography category: 971 books
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire...
by Louise Lassonde
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the year 2050. The question is therefore no longer the traditional one of whether the planet can support...
A Place Called Home
The Social Dimensions of Homeownership
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership. Some say homeownership remains an important contributor to wealth creation, while others believe that renting is a less expensive and less...
Disability and Qualitative Inquiry
Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly work...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon...
Politicizing Consumer Choice
Ethical Dimensions of Consumerism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book investigates various forms of political and ethical consumerism in the United States and delivers a comprehensive conceptualization of the consumer’s role in the marketplace. Both aspects, the potential impact of market-based activism on corporations in America and the socio-structural...
The Democratic Gulag
Patriarchy, Leadership and Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The Democratic Gulag is a provocative, comprehensive investigation of the pervasive and transparent power of patriarchy in social evolution and contemporary society. It asserts that we live in a well-constructed ideological, intellectual and social gulag of patriarchal values, beliefs, attitudes and...
Dismantling Diasporas
Rethinking the Geographies of Diasporic Identity, Connection and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the important role that geographers can play in interrupting assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The intricate, material and complex ways in which those in...
The Contemporary Family in France
Partnership Trajectories and Domestic Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book provides a portrait of the family in France today, revealing many of the deep-seated, demographic changes that have affected French society in recent decades. It first focuses on conjugal and family trajectories, examining union formation, types of union, entry into parenthood, influence...
Tough Choices
Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the past fifty years. This book provides the first...
Diversity in Family Formation
The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands...
by Birinder Pal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book is a major intervention in the understanding of the dynamics of internal migration in South Asia. It traces the historical roots of certain migrant Sikh communities to the south and north-east India; chronicles their social, religious and economic practices; and examines peculiar identity...
by Christine Barrow (Editor), Marjan de Bruin (Editor), Robert Carr (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean context by exploring risks, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. It provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different...
Marriage and Fertility Behaviour in Japan
Economic Status and Value-Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This monograph examines the influence of ideational and socio-economic factors on Japanese marriage and fertility behaviour. It also investigates the historical change in attitudes toward partnership and family in Japan, which, if current trends continue, can lead to population shrinkage and an asymmetrical...