Population in the human sciences : concepts, models, evidence / edited by Philip Kreager [and three others]
- Bib ID:
- 6846637
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015
- xxii, 605 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBN:
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- 0199688206
- 9780199688203
- Summary:
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The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. The need to explain and address differential impacts of pressing contemporary issues like AIDS, ageing, social and economic inequalities, and environmental change, are well-known cases in point. Population concepts, models, and evidence lie at the core of approaches to all of these problems, if only because accurate differentiation and identification of groups, their structures, constituents, and relations between sub-populations, are necessary to specify their nature and extent. The study of population thus draws both on statistical methodologies of demography and population genetics and sustained observation of the ways in which populations and sub-populations are formed, maintained, or broken up in nature, in the laboratory, and in society. In an era in which research needs to operate on multiple levels, population thinking thus provides a common ground for communication and critical thought across disciplines. This book addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. Limitations to prevailing postwar paradigms like the Evolutionary Synthesis and Demographic Transition were becoming evident by the 1970s.
- Notes:
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- Revised papers of a workshop held at the Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, Oxford University, on 7-9 September 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Kreager, Philip, editor
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