Studies in the Sociology of Population: International Perspectives

373 Pages·2019·8.1 MB·English

by  Jon Anson

Jon Anson · Walter Bartl 
Andrzej Kulczycki    Editors
Studies in
the Sociology
of Population
International Perspectives
Studies in the Sociology of Population
Jon Anson Walter Bartl
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Andrzej Kulczycki
Editors
Studies in the Sociology
of Population
International Perspectives
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Editors
Jon Anson Andrzej Kulczycki
Department ofSocial Work Schoolof Public Health
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev University of Alabama atBirmingham
Beersheba, Israel Birmingham, AL,USA
Walter Bartl
Institute of Sociology
Martin LutherUniversity Halle-Wittenberg
Halle, Germany
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Eight billion people
World of inequality
The bomb keeps ticking
Contents
1 Roots and Fruits of Population Growth and Social Structures:
Demographic and Sociological Vistas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jon Anson, Walter Bartl and Andrzej Kulczycki
Part I Demography and Social Structure
2 The Demographic Transition in the Nasa-Indigenous and Black
Populations of Northern Cauca (Colombia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Fernando Urrea-Giraldo
3 Intermarriage and Assimilation Among Arabs in the United
States: Estimates, Causes, and Trends, 1990–2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Andrzej Kulczycki and Arun Peter Lobo
4 Occupational Classes of Immigrants and Their Descendants
in East Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Oliver Winkler
5 Violence, Firearms and Life Expectancy in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Guillermo Julián González-Pérez and María Guadalupe Vega-López
Part II Population Structure
6 Sex Ratios in Old Age: Comparing Countries in Middle
Eastern Asia to East and Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Sehar Ezdi and Harald Künemund
7 From Ageing-Driven Growth Towards the Ending of Growth.
Subnational Population Trends in New Zealand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Natalie Jackson, Lars Brabyn, Dave Maré, Michael Cameron
and Ian Pool
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8 Natural Decrease in Semi-peripheral Nations: County-Level
Analyses of Mexico and Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
GuadalupeMarquez-Velarde,CeylanEnginandDudleyL.PostonJr.
9 From Topic to Problem: Organisational Mechanisms
of Constructing Demographic Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Sven Kette
Part III Social Policy
10 Minorities in Spanish Secondary Education: School Segregation,
Between Reality and Official Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Brahim El-Habib Draoui, María Jiménez-Delgado
and Raúl Ruiz-Callado
11 Small School Closures in Rural Areas—The Beginning
or the End of a Downward Spiral? Some Evidence
from Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Sigrid Kroismayr
12 Maternal Outcomes in the Context of Free Maternal Healthcare
Provisioning in North Central and South Western Nigeria. . . . . . . 301
Anthony Ajayi and Wilson Akpan
13 The Association Between Household and Community Single
Motherhood and Adolescent Pregnancy in South Africa. . . . . . . . . 319
Sibusiso Mkwananzi
14 Tobacco Use Among Men in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Does Family Structure Matter?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Lorretta Favour C. Ntoimo, Clifford O. Odimegwu
and Christiana A. Alex-Ojei
Author Index.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 363
Subject Index.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 375
Contributors
Anthony Ajayi Sociology Department, University of Fort Hare, East London,
South Africa
Wilson Akpan Sociology Department, University of Fort Hare, East London,
South Africa
ChristianaA.Alex-Ojei SchoolsofSocialSciencesandPublicHealth,University
oftheWitwatersrand,Johannesburg,SouthAfrica;DepartmentofDemographyand
Social Statistics, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
Jon Anson Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva, Israel
Walter Bartl Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,
Halle, Germany
Lars Brabyn School of Geography, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New
Zealand
Michael Cameron Department of Economics, National Institute of Demographic
and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Brahim El-Habib Draoui Department of Sociology I, University of Alicante,
Alicante, Spain
Ceylan Engin Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Sehar Ezdi University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Guillermo Julián González-Pérez University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara,
Mexico
Natalie Jackson Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; National
Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato,
Hamilton, New Zealand
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x Contributors
María Jiménez-Delgado Department of Sociology I, University of Alicante,
Alicante, Spain
Sven Kette University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Sigrid Kroismayr Club of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Andrzej Kulczycki School of Public Health, University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA
Harald Künemund University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany
Arun Peter Lobo Population Division, New York City Department of City
Planning, New York City, USA
Dave Maré Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New
Zealand
Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
Sibusiso Mkwananzi Demography and Population Studies, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lorretta Favour C. Ntoimo Department of Demography and Social Statistics,
Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
Clifford O. Odimegwu Schools of Social Sciences and Public Health, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
IanPool NationalInstituteofDemographicandEconomicAnalysis,Universityof
Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Dudley L. Poston Jr. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Raúl Ruiz-Callado Department of Sociology I, University of Alicante, Alicante,
Spain
Fernando Urrea-Giraldo Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social
Sciences and Economics, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
María Guadalupe Vega-López University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
Oliver Winkler Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-
Wittenberg, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Chapter 1
Roots and Fruits of Population Growth
and Social Structures: Demographic
and Sociological Vistas
Jon Anson, Walter Bartl and Andrzej Kulczycki
Abstract World population, currently approaching 7.5 billion, will probably
exceed11 billionbytheendofthecentury,almostdoublewhatitwasatturnofthe
present century. The growth is uneven, and the result is a redistribution of the
world’spopulation:attheendofthiscenturyEuropewillhaveessentiallynomore
peoplethanithadfiftyyearsago,whereasAfrica’spopulationwillhavemultiplied
20-fold, and will have gone up from under 10% to over 30% of the world’s
population. Thus, not only is population growing but it is currently growing in
those regions of the world that have the least resources at their disposal, and the
result is liable to be a dramatic rise in world inequality; increased conflict over
access to resources; and increased migratory pressure from the poor to the richer
regionsoftheworld.Inthisintroductorychapter,wediscussthehistoryandsources
of growth in world population over the past two centuries (in particular mortality
and fertility) and its eventual stabilisation. We consider some of the major links
between population and social dynamics in the light of two basic approaches to
world population growth: The Malthusian approach, which views growth as a
catastrophe, and the Marxian approach, which sees both population growth and its
outcomesascontingentonsocialconditionsandresponses.Wefocusonthemutual
relationship between population and societal change at all levels, the micro-, the
meso-andthemacro-levels,arelationshipthatisalsoreflectedinthepapersinthis
collection.However,thereisalsoagencyinpopulationgrowthandtheintroduction
concludes with a consideration of the options which humanity faces given the
anticipated growth of world population and its redistribution.
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Keywords World population Population growth Social inequality
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Malthus Marx Social demography
J.Anson(&)
DepartmentofSocialWork,Ben-GurionUniversityoftheNegev,BeerSheva,Israel
e-mail:[email protected]
W.Bartl
InstituteofSociology,MartinLutherUniversityHalle-Wittenberg,Halle,Germany
A.Kulczycki
SchoolofPublicHealth,UniversityofAlabamaatBirmingham,Birmingham,USA
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