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Twelve population scientists address the questions: What are the major changes that occurred in the 1980s? What created these changes? What major consequences result from these changes for the present and for the future? Included are chapters that give theoretical explanations of social change, discuss the social and ecological effects of high population density, and show the change in population composition, fertility and mortality rates, and migration patterns. In addition to these traditional demographic concerns, the work also provides insights into community redevelopment, poverty, changing family patterns, and ethnic identification.

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Author:   J. Selwyn Hollingsworth ,  Dennis L. Peck
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 114.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.529kg
ISBN:  

9780313287442

ISBN 10:   0313287449
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   16 May 1996
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction by Dennis L. Peck and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth Theories of Demographic Change by Lakshmi K. Bharadwaj New Dynamics of Urban-Suburban Change: Immigration, Restructuring and Racial Separation by William H. Frey and Elaine L. Fielding Age and Race in the United States: The 1980s and Beyond by Donald W. Bogie Fertility Trends in the United States by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Hong Dan Public Health and Mortality: Public Health in the 1980s by David W. Coombs and Stuart A. Capper The Cashier Complex and the Changing American Labor Force by Teresa A. Sullivan Urban Redevelopment and the Post-Industrial City: The Persistence of Gentrification in Central Cities, 1980-1990 by Frank Harold Wilson Poverty in the Midst of Plenty by Kirsten K. West Cross-Racial Births in the United States, 1968-1988 by Louie Albert Woolbright and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth Concluding Comments Index

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DENNIS L. PECK is Professor of Sociology at The University of Alabama. He is the editor of two other books, including Open Insitutions (Praeger, 1992) with John W. Murphy. J. SELWYN HOLLINGSWORTH is Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Alabama. He is the author of two books on public health in Alabama.

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