Demography in the Age of the Postmodern [Hardcover]

A critical study of the field of demography from a postmodernist perspective.Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain both its political and academic strength. In this new study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine Demography from the new perspective of postmodernism, looking at the beginnings of the development of Demography as a field. They argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into Demography in order to broaden and deepen its understandings of demographic behaviour. The book includes numerous examples of new kinds of demographic-related research, and discusses how they enrich the field.Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain both its political and academic strength. In this new study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine Demography from the new perspective of postmodernism, looking at the beginnings of the development of Demography as a field. They argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into Demography in order to broaden and deepen its understandings of demographic behaviour. The book includes numerous examples of new kinds of demographic-related research, and discusses how they enrich the field.Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: why examine demography?; 2. A brief introduction to postmodernism; 3. The essentials of demography; 4. A genealogy of demography; 5. Demography's place in the social sciences; 6. Feminist demography; 7. Postmodern perspectives inl3b