Social Demography (SY0011)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : SPS-3-SYSOCDEM

A review of the principal determinants of human reproductive behaviour in the developed and developing worlds. Topics will include: The Demographic Transition in Europe: Population Problems in the Third World - China and India as case studies; The determinants of Family Size in Contemporary Britain; The Social Psychology of Contraceptive Risk-Taking.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Sociology, (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

a) whether models of population regulation derived from the study of non-human populations may be applied validly to our own experience;

b) how the Theory of the Demographic Transition in Europe has developed in recent years and whether trustworthy generalizations about this phenomenon may still be stated;

c) what current patterns of fertility in developed societies, particularly Great Britain, are and how they may be explained in sociological terms;

d) how world population is growing and whether this growth constitutes a threat to human welfare;

e)how the phenomenon of contraceptive risk-taking among teenagers may be explained;

f) how reproductive motivation in the less developed world may be explained and why family planning programmes have been so notoriously ineffective;

g) whether China, as a case study, will achieve its current demographic objectives.