Social Demography
General data
Course ID: | 3500-FAK-DEMSPOL-OG |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.2
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Course title: | Social Demography |
Name in Polish: | Demografia społeczna |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Sociology |
Course groups: |
General university courses General university courses in the social sciences |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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Language: | Polish |
Type of course: | elective courses |
Mode: | Classroom |
Short description: |
The course’s aim is to present the basic knowledge on demography - the main theories, and analytical tools. During the course world population will be described and analysed – its structure and trends of changes. Students will learn about the main demographic phenomena and processes. |
Full description: |
The course’s aim is to present the basic knowledge on demography - the main theories, and analytical tools. During the course world population will be described and analysed – its structure and trends of changes. Students will learn about the main demographic phenomena and processes. - sources of demographic data - measures of population phenomena and processes (crude rates, standarization, Lexis diagram; cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis) - age and sex structure (population pyramids; sex ratio; ageing of populations; dependency ratio) - marriage and householding (determinants of family creation; selected theoretical concepts) - fertility (fertility theories; crude birth rate; total fertility rate) - mortality (crude death rate; life table and life expectancy; morbidity and mortality pattern in the traditional and in the modern socjety; selected theoretical concepts) - demographic transition - population growth (population replacement; population turnover; population growth gross/net reproduction rates) - migrations (net migration; migration theories, newest international migrations and the methods to explain them) - the main theories (e.g. T. Malthus - malthusianism and neomalthusianism, G. Becker and new home economics, H. Leibenstein, R. A. Easterlin, J. C. Caldwell, Pool, 2nd demographic transition) |
Bibliography: |
J. Z. Holzer, Demografia, PWE, Warszawa 2003 (wybrane rozdziały) J. Jóźwiak, Demograficzne uwarunkowania rynku pracy w Polsce, [w:] Rynek pracy wobec zmian demograficznych, M. Kiełkowska (red.), Instytut Obywatelski, Warszawa 2013, s. 8-23 G. Lanzieri, The greying of the baby boomers. A century-long view of ageing in European populations, “Statistics in focus”, Eurostat 2011 M. Okólski, Demografia zmiany społecznej, Scholar, Warszawa 2004 (wybrane rozdziały) M. Okólski, Demografia. Podstawowe pojęcia, procesy i teorie w encyklopedycznym zarysie, Scholar, Warszawa 2005 M. Okólski, A. Fihel, Demografia. Współczesne zjawiska i teorie, Scholar, Warszawa 2012 (wybrane rozdziały) Podstawowe informacje o rozwoju demograficznym Polski do 2014. Notatka informacyjna, GUS, Warszawa 2015 (albo nowsza wersja, jeśli będzie dostępna) Sytuacja demograficzna osób starszych i konsekwencje starzenia się ludności Polski w świetle prognozy na lata 2014-2050, GUS, Warszawa 2014 Trwanie życia w 2014 r., GUS, Warszawa 2015 (albo nowsza wersja, jeśli będzie dostępna) |
Learning outcomes: |
A student: knows and understands basic concepts of various sub-domains of sociology (in particular social demography) has in-depth knowledge of tools and goals of social policy can identify causes and predict potential effects of past and current social events; can form critical judgments about current and past social events can independently form and verify judgments about the causes of selected social phenomena, in particular demographic processes can do a critical and reflective analysis of the consequences of the processes occurring in modern societies can argue a thesis using scientific evidence |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Final written exam; obtaining course credit is conditional on not exceeding the limit of two absences in a semester |
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