Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology

The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul Eberts, and Michael Hannan, all professors at the t...

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Other Authors: Micklin, Michael (Editor), Poston, Dudley L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations
  • 1. Human Ecology, Population, and Development
  • 2. Human Ecology, Sociology, and Demography
  • 3. The Ecological Complex: A Conceptual Elaboration
  • 4. POETS-PACS-LEDD: From Paradigm to Theory to Policy in Human Ecological Perspective
  • 5. An Ecological Theory of Organizational Structuring
  • 6. Ecology’s Contribution to Cross-National Theory and Research
  • 7. The Human Ecology of Agriculture in the United States
  • 8. Ecological Approaches in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentiation and Inequality
  • 9. Enhancing the Spatial Policy Framework with Ecological Analysis
  • II. Empirical Research
  • 10. Division of Labor and Morphological Response: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
  • 11. Determinants of the Division of Labor in China
  • 12. The Effects of Public and Private Sustenance Organizations on Population Redistribution in New York State
  • 13. Toward an Integrated Ecological-Sociological Theory of Suburbanization
  • 14. Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation in China
  • 15. An Ecological Investigation of Agricultural Patterns in the United States
  • 16. Ecological and Structural Determinants of Declining Labor Force Participation of African-American Men: Evidence from Southern Nonmetropolitan Labor Markets, 1940–1980
  • Epilogue: Confessions of a Sometime Ecologist (Mostly Human)
  • About the Contributors
  • Name Index