Postgraduate Course: Social Demography (SCIL11024)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Social and Political Science |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Sociology |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
The aim of the course is to introduce a sociological approach to the study of human population. It does this by maintaining a dual focus, both on a substantive topic, the reproduction of population, and reflexive consideration of how knowledge of this comes to be produced and considered to be $ùsocial science&©. It considers the sometimes bizarre disciplinary division of labour between sociology and demography, the importance of the state as an institution in the development of demography as a discipline, and the way in which this has influenced and continues to influence the kinds of analysis it has developed. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Seminar Room 6, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
In the course students will:
&· Learn the key concepts and theoretical approaches, including some of the statistical techniques, used in the study of population;
&· Enhance their ability to analyse the nature of social change, especially through the consideration of $ùlongitudinal&© analysis;
&· Examine the relationship between sociological argument and evidence, and distinguish sociological analysis from other forms of understanding.
Students will become familiar with and be able to assess critically such issues as:
What defines a population? a generation? a family?
What does the reproduction of population comprise?
What was the $ùDemographic Transition&© in Europe, and what is the significance of debates about its character, and its fundamental importance for the contemporary world;
Changing patterns of fertility in the world, and whether and in what ways the desire to have children or form a family may be sociologically explained.
What the phenomenon of $ùpopulation ageing&© comprises, and what its causes and consequences may be;
The way in which international politics have influenced the development of demography as a discipline.
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Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by a project worth 25%, and a 4,000 word essay worth 75%. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr John Macinnes
Tel: (0131 6)50 3867
Email: john.macinnes@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Madina Howard
Tel:
Email: Madina.Howard@ed.ac.uk |
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