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(in Polish) Procesy ludnościowe

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Course ID: 3500-FAKM-PL
Erasmus code / ISCED: 14.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: Procesy ludnościowe
Organizational unit: Faculty of Sociology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 4.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
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)

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Final written exam; obtaining course credit is conditional on not exceeding the limit of two absences in a semester

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 13 places more information
Coordinators: Marta Kiełkowska
Group instructors: Marta Kiełkowska
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