Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence
The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. The need to explain and address differential impacts of pressing contemporary issues like AIDS, ageing, social and economic inequalities, and environmental change, are well-known cases in point. Population concepts, models, and evidence lie at the core of approaches to all of these problems, if only because accurate differentiation and identification of groups, their structures, constituents, and relations between sub-populations, are necessary to specify their nature and extent. The study of population thus draws both on statistical methodologies of demography and population genetics and sustained observation of the ways in which populations and sub-populations are formed, maintained, or broken up in nature, in the laboratory, and in society. In an era in which research needs to operate on multiple levels, population thinking thus provides a common ground for communication and critical thought across disciplines.

Population in the Human Sciences addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. Limitations to prevailing postwar paradigms like the Evolutionary Synthesis and Demographic Transition were becoming evident by the 1970s. Subsequent decades have witnessed an immense expansion of population modelling and related empirical inquiry, with new genetic developments that have reshaped evolutionary, population, and developmental biology. The rise of anthropological and historical demography, and social network analysis, are playing major roles in rethinking modern and earlier population history. More recently, the emergence of sub-disciplines like biodemography and evolutionary anthropology, and growing links between evolutionary and developmental biology, indicate a growing convergence of biological and social approaches to population.
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Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence
The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. The need to explain and address differential impacts of pressing contemporary issues like AIDS, ageing, social and economic inequalities, and environmental change, are well-known cases in point. Population concepts, models, and evidence lie at the core of approaches to all of these problems, if only because accurate differentiation and identification of groups, their structures, constituents, and relations between sub-populations, are necessary to specify their nature and extent. The study of population thus draws both on statistical methodologies of demography and population genetics and sustained observation of the ways in which populations and sub-populations are formed, maintained, or broken up in nature, in the laboratory, and in society. In an era in which research needs to operate on multiple levels, population thinking thus provides a common ground for communication and critical thought across disciplines.

Population in the Human Sciences addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. Limitations to prevailing postwar paradigms like the Evolutionary Synthesis and Demographic Transition were becoming evident by the 1970s. Subsequent decades have witnessed an immense expansion of population modelling and related empirical inquiry, with new genetic developments that have reshaped evolutionary, population, and developmental biology. The rise of anthropological and historical demography, and social network analysis, are playing major roles in rethinking modern and earlier population history. More recently, the emergence of sub-disciplines like biodemography and evolutionary anthropology, and growing links between evolutionary and developmental biology, indicate a growing convergence of biological and social approaches to population.
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Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence

Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence

Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence

Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence

Overview

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. The need to explain and address differential impacts of pressing contemporary issues like AIDS, ageing, social and economic inequalities, and environmental change, are well-known cases in point. Population concepts, models, and evidence lie at the core of approaches to all of these problems, if only because accurate differentiation and identification of groups, their structures, constituents, and relations between sub-populations, are necessary to specify their nature and extent. The study of population thus draws both on statistical methodologies of demography and population genetics and sustained observation of the ways in which populations and sub-populations are formed, maintained, or broken up in nature, in the laboratory, and in society. In an era in which research needs to operate on multiple levels, population thinking thus provides a common ground for communication and critical thought across disciplines.

Population in the Human Sciences addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. Limitations to prevailing postwar paradigms like the Evolutionary Synthesis and Demographic Transition were becoming evident by the 1970s. Subsequent decades have witnessed an immense expansion of population modelling and related empirical inquiry, with new genetic developments that have reshaped evolutionary, population, and developmental biology. The rise of anthropological and historical demography, and social network analysis, are playing major roles in rethinking modern and earlier population history. More recently, the emergence of sub-disciplines like biodemography and evolutionary anthropology, and growing links between evolutionary and developmental biology, indicate a growing convergence of biological and social approaches to population.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199688203
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/12/2015
Pages: 628
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Philip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College, and Lecturer and Tutor in Demography, Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford University,Bruce Winney, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford,Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University,Cristian Capelli, University Lecturer in Human Evolution, Department of Zoology, Oxford University

Philip Kreager is an anthropological demographer and historian of population thought and analysis. He is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, School of Anthropology; Lecturer and Tutor in Population, Institute of Human Sciences; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University. He currently co-directs an exploratory anthropological and demographic study of problems of malaria treatment in the eastern archipelago of Indonesia. During 1999-2007 he directed Ageing in Indonesia, a multi-site longitudinal study of ageing in three Indonesian Communities, supported by the Welcome Trust. This work has led to continuing collaboration with the University of Indonesia, where he is Honorary Professor. Dr Kreager has a primary interest in the history of population thought, particularly as a common ground of theory and analysis linking the biological and social sciences.

Table of Contents

PART I. Population in the Human Sciences: An IntroductionIntroduction, Philip Kreager, Bruce Winney, Stanley Ulijaszek, Cristian CapelliPART II. What is a Population?1. Population and the Making of the Human Sciences: An Historical Outline, Philip Kreager2. Population Genetics: The Study of the Genetic Structure of Human Populations, Walter Bodmer and Bruce Winney3. Populations in Statistical Genetic Modelling and Inference, Daniel John Lawson4. Population Heterogeneity in the Spotlight of Biodemography, Kenneth W. WachterPART III. Rethinking Intra- and Inter-Population Dynamics5. Niche Construction in Human Evolution and Demography, John Odling-Smee6. Populations for Studying the Causes of Britain's Fertility Decline: Communication Communities, Simon Szreter7. The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research, Hans-Peter Kohler, Stephane Helleringer, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan C. Watkins8. Populations are Composed One Event at a Time, Jennifer A. Johnson-HanksPART IV. Mechanisms of Local Level Variation and Change of State9. Networks, Strata, and Ageing: Towards a Compositional Demography of Vulnerability, Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill10. Constructing Migration in Southeast Asia: Conceptual, Empirical, and Policy Issues, Graeme Hugo11. Collective Identities, Shifting Population Membership, and Niche Construction Theory: Implications from Taiwanese and Chinese Empirical Evidence, Melissa J. Brown12. The Causal Relationship between Fertility and Infant Mortality: Prospective Analyses of a Population in Transition, Hillard Kaplan, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Michael GurvenPART V. Constructing Populations in the Long Term13. Genetics and the Reconstruction of African Population History, Francesc Calafell and David Comas14. Species, Populations, and Groups in Hominin Evolution, Sarah Elton and Jason Dunn15. Residence Patterns and the Human-Ecological Setting in Historical Eastern Europe: A Challenge of Compositional (Re)analysis, Mikolaj Szoltysek16. Linking Late-Imperial and Early Modern Population Dynamics in the Lower Yangzi Valley: An Analysis of Xiaoji Township, Mark ElvinPART VI. Identifying Sub-Populations for Disease Treatment and Control17. From Populations to Clines in Modern Statistical Genetics, Chris Spencer18. Population Structure and Public Health Research on HIV Control in Sub-Saharan Africa, Simon Gregson and Tim Hallett19. Interventions in Context, Stephen Kunitz20. Hormones and Disease: Contested Knowledge of Exogenous Hormones in the Evaluation of Oral Contraceptives and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Klim McPherson
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