Social Demography

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Course ID:	3502-FAKL34-MGR
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:	Social Demography
Name in Polish:	Demografia społeczna
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Sociology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) 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. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) .
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

This course is not currently offered.

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