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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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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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