Předmět Demography for foreign students (non-demographers) (MZ300E006)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Sylabus

1.Prologue I: a. History of Demography (Milestones of Demography) , b. International Professional Organizations in the Field of Population Studies c. Major Demographic Journals and Websites d. Basic Demographic Terminology and Multilingual Demographic Dictionary 2.Prologue II: a. Process of Demographic Reproduction b. Specificities of Demographic Cognition Process c. Two Types of Demographic Data - Stock and Flow Numbers d. Time in Demography and Lexis Diagram e. Period and Cohort Perspectives 3.Data Sources: a. Collect on Demographic Data (Census, Current Registration of Events, Sample Survey) b. Demographic Data Quality and Availability c. Main Sources of Demographic Data on Internet 4.System of Demographic Indicators: a. Classification of Demographic Indicators b. General Rules of Demographic Indicators Construction c. Interpretation and Applicability of Basic Demographic Indicators 5.Demographic Structures: a. Basic Demographic Structures and Their General Regularities b. Principles of Demographic Structures Description c. Graphical Tools – Construction of Age Pyramid d. Numerical Characteristics of Age Structure e. Age Structures Typology6.Principles of Fertility Analysis a. Basic Indicators b. Fertility Table c. General Fertility Patterns 7.Principles of Mortality Analysis a. Basic Indicators b. MortalityTable c. General Mortality Patterns8.Principles of Migration Analysis a. Basic Indicators b. Construction of Gross Migraproduction Rate c. Demographic Patterns of Migration9.Agregate Process of Demographic Reproduction a. Annual Growth Rate b. Reproduction Rates Construction c. Replacement Level 10.Basic Demographic Theories and Concepts: a. Malthus Theory and Neomalthusians b. Theory of Demographic Transition/Revolution c. Second Demographic Transition Concept 11.World Population Development I: a. World Population History b. Current Demographic Situation in the World c. Demographic Issues of Contemporary Europe 12.World Population Development II: a. UN World Population Prospects b. Population Perspectives of the World c. Population Ageing as a Global Process and its Potential Consequences 13.-14.Student Demographic Seminar in Malá Skála (North Bohemia) a. Presentation of Seminar Works (Demographic Portrait of a Country or Region)

Literatura

In English:Demeny, Paul and Geoffrey McNicoll (eds.). 1998. The Reader in Population andDevelopment. New York: St. Martin's Press. Fialová, Ludmila et al. 2009. Population Development in the Czech Republic 2007. Prague: SLON. Hinde, Andrew. 1998. Demographic methods. London: Arnold. van de Kaa, Dirk. 1987. Europe’s second demographic transition. Population Bulletin 42, 1 (March).Livi-Bacci, Massimo. 1997. A Concise History of World Population. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.Nam, Charles. 1994. Understanding Population Change. Itasca, Ill.: F.E.Peacock, Inc. Poston, Dudley L. and Michael Micklin (eds.). 2006. Handbook of Population. Heidelberg: Springer.Preston, Samuel, Patrick Heuveline and Michel Guillot. 2001. Demography. Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.PRB’s Population Handbook. 6th Edition. 2011. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference BureauSiegel, Jacob S. and Swanson, David A. 2004. The Methods and Materials of Demography. Bradford: Emerald Group PublishingWeeks, John R. 2007. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (10th ed.) Florence, KY: Wadsworth PublishingWunsch, Guillaume J. and Marc G. Termote. 1978. Introduction to Demographic Analysis. Principles and Methods. New York and London: Plenum Press.In French:Henry, Louis. 1984. Démographie, analyse et modeles. Paris: INED.Pressat Rolland. 1961. L'analyse démographique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (also available in English)Vandeschrick, Christophe. 2000. Analyse démographique. Louvain-la-Neuve/Paris: Académia/L'Harmattan (available also in Russian)In Russian:Boyarskiy, A.Ya. (ed.). 1985. Kurs demografii. Moskva: Finansi i statistika.Denisenko, Michail B. and Nataliya M. Kalmykova. 2007. Demografiya. Uchebnoye Posobiye. Moskva: Infra-M. Medkov, V.M. 2003. Osnovy demografii. Feniks: Rostov-na-Donu.Vanderskrik, Kristof. 2005. Demograficheskij analyz. Moskva: Gaudeamus.Multilingual Demographic Dictionary Project on http://demopaedia.org/

Požadavky

During the course a seminar work on a selected theme will be elaborated by each student and presented at a final seminar. For successful passing the course students are obliged to obtain a credit and pass the prescribed written examination.

Garant

RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc.

Vyučující

RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc.