Demography in the Age of the Postmodern

by James McCarthy and Nancy E. Riley

Book Overview

Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularly its absence of a strong critical tradition and its isolation from recent theoretical developments in other social sciences. In this study, Nancy Riley and James...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521533643
• ISBN13: 9780521533645
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"