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Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography (International Studies in Demography) by Simon Szreter; Hania Sholkamy; A Dharmalingam; International Union for the Scientific Study of Population is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways. First, it examines the historical and political circumstances in which suchcategories had their pr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simon Szreter; Hania Sholkamy; A Dharmalingam; International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199270576
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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