SOCIOLOGY 324

DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD

• 1: 1/30 Introduction; organization
• 2: 2/1 Sources of demographic data
• 3: 2/6 Basic measures of population growth
• 4: 2/8 History of population growth
• 5: 2/13 Immigration: trends and prospects
• 6: 2/15 Mortality: measurement, life table
• 7: 2/20 Trends and differentials in mortality
• 8: 2/22 Marriage and divorce: trends and prospects
• 9: 2/27 Fertility: measurement
• 10-11: 3/13/6 Trends in fertility, growth and prospects
• 12: 3/8 MIDTERM
• 13: 3/20 Demand for family planning
• 14: 3/22 Contraception
• 15: 3/27 Abortion
• 16: 3/29 Adolescent fertility
• 17: 4/3 Ethnic composition
• 18: 4/5 No class (PAA)
• 19: 4/10 The aged population
• 20: 4/12 Consequences of population growth
• 21: 4/17 U.S. population policy
• 22: 4/19 U.S. policy toward third world growth
• 23: 4/24 Special cases: China, India, Kenya
• 24: 4/26 The 1994 World Population Conference

DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN THE U.S. AND THE WORLD

SOCIOLOGY 324 READING LIST

HISTORY OF POPULATION CHANGE

• Population Reference Bureau (l989). America in the 21st Century: A Demographic Overview. 25 pp.
• Population Reference Bureau (1989). America in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective. 27 pp.
• Van de Kaa, D. (1987). "Europe's Second Demographic Transition," Population Bulletin 42(1), March.
• Weeks, John (1994). "An Overview of the World's Population", Population Chap.2, pp.28-56.

METHODS

• Palmore (l982). Measuring Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase: A Self Teaching Guide to Elementary Measures. Use as reference.
• A. Haupt and Thomas Kane (1991). Population Handbook, 3rd Ed., Population Reference Bureau.
• C. Haub (1987). "Understanding Population Projections," Population Bulletin 42(4), December. (Skim)
• Weeks, John (1994). Population, Chap.1 "Introduction", pp.327.
• Fosler, Scott et al, (1990). "How Many People?" in Demographic Change and the American Future. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 40-56.

IMMIGRATION

• Weeks, John (1994) Population, pp.212-224. Bouvier, Leon and Robert Gardner (1986) "Immigration to the United States: The Unfinished Story," Population Bulletin 41(4) Nov.
• Teitelbaum, Michael (1992). "Advocacy, Ambivalence, Ambiguity: Immigration Policies and Prospects in the United States," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.136, No.2, pp.208-225.
• Rolph, Elizabeth (1992). Immigration Policies: Legacy from the 1980's and Issues for the 1990s, Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., 58pp.

MORTALITY

• Crimmins, Eileen (l98l). "The Changing Pattern of American Mortality Decline, 1940-77, and Its Implications for the Future," Population and Development Review 7(2):229-254.
• Waldron, Ingrid (1985). "What Do We Know About Causes of Sex Differences in Mortality? A Review of the Literature," Population Bulletin of the United Nations 18.
• Weeks, John (1994). Population. Chap.6 "Mortality", pp. 157-191.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

• Bianchi, Suzanne and Daphne Spain (1986). "Marriage Patterns," Chapter 1 in American Women in Transition, Russell Sage Foundation. (Skim book)
• Popenoe, David (1993). "American Family Decline, 1960-1990: A Review and Appraisal," Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55, August, pp.527-542.
• Ahlburg, Dennis and Carol DeVita (1992), "New Realities of the American Family," Population Bulletin 47 (2).
• Sweet, J. and L. Bumpass (1988). "Incidence of Marital Disruption," Chapter 5 i n American Families and Households, Russell Sage Foundation.

FERTILITY

• Weeks, John. (1994). Population, Chap.4 "Fertility Concepts and Measurement" pp. 89-122.
• Pratt, William F., et al. (l984). "Understanding U.S. Fertility: Findings from the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle III," Population Bulletin 39(5).
• Westoff, C.F., (1987). "Perspective on Nuptiality and Fertility," in K. Davis, et. al., Below Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies, Cambridge Univ. P ress, pp. 155-170.
• Robey, Bryant, Shea Rutstein, Leo Morris (December, 1993). "The Fertility Decline in Developing Countries" Scientific American, pp. 60-67.
• Lutz, Wolfgang. (1994) "Future Reproductive Behavior in Industrialized Countries", Chap. 11 in Lutz, The Future Population of the World International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

CONTRACEPTION

• Hatcher, et al., (l992). Contraceptive Technology 1990-1992. (Skim)
• Forrest, J. D. and R. Fordyce, (1993). "Women's Contraceptive Attitudes and Use in 1992," Family Planning Perspectives 25(4):175-179, July/August.
• Potts, Malcolm (1988). "Birth Control Methods in the United States," Family Planning Perspectives 20(6):288-297, Nov./Dec.

ABORTION

• Tribe, Laurence H. Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1992). Chap.3 "Two Centuries of Abortion in America", pp.27-51, and Chap.4 "Locating Abortion on the World Map", pp.52-76. Skim other chapters.
• Henshaw, Stanley and J. Silverman (1988). "The Characteristics and Prior Contraceptive Use of U.S. Abortion Patients," Family Planning Perspectives 20(4):158-168, July/Aug.

ADOLESCENT FERTILITY

• Burt, Martha R. (1986). "Estimating the Public Costs of Teenage Childbearing," Family Planning Perspectives 18(5):221-226.
• Westoff, C.F., Gerard Calot and Andrew Foster (l983). "Teenage Fertility in Developed Nations: l97l-l980," International Family Planning Perspectives 9(2).
• E.F. Jones, et. al. (1985). "Teenage Pregnancy in Developed Countries: Determinants and Policy Implications," Family Planning Perspectives 17(2):53-62, Mar./Apr.
• Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and America's Teenagers (1994), 81pp.
• Westoff, Charles F. (1988). "Unintended Pregnancy in America and Abroad," Family Planning Perpectives 20(6):254-261, Nov./Dec.

ETHNIC COMPOSITION

• O'Hare,W. et al.(1991). "AfricanAmericans in the 1990's," Population Bulletin 46(1), July.
• Lieberson, S. and Mary Waters (1988). From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America, Russell Sage Foundation. (Skim)
• Bean, Frank and Marta Tienda (1988). The Hispanic Population of the United States, Russell Sage Foundation. Read chapter summaries.
• Farley, R. and W. Allen (1987). "A World With No Color Line: Race and Class in 21st Century America," Chapter 13 in The Color Line and the Quality of Life, Russell Sage Foundation, NY.
• O'Hare, William and Judy Felt (1991). "Asian Americans: America's Fastest Growing Minority Group," Population Bulletin February 1991.

CONSEQUENCES OF POPULATION CHANGE

• Wattenberg, B. (1987). The Birth Dearth, Pharos Books, N.Y. Chaps.18, 10. "Governance and Politics," America in the 21st Century, 1990. "Environmental Concerns," America in the 21st Century, 1990.
• Weeks, John (1994) Population Chap.13 "Population Growth and Economic Developmen t" pp.379-406; Chap.14 "Population Growth, Food, and the Environment", pp.407-430.

THE AGED

• Jones (l980). Great Expectations. Coward, McCann: New York. Chapters l, 2, 6, ll, l5, l7, 23-24.
• Treas, Judith and R. Torrecilha. (1994 in press). "The Older Population: Demographic, Social and Economic Trends," 1990 Census Monograph, Russell Sage.
• Soldo, Beth and Emily Agree (1988). "America's Elderly," Population Bulletin 43 (3), September.
• Fosler, Scott, et al. (1990). "The Aging of the Population," in Demographic Change and the American Future, University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 86-112.

POPULATION POLICIES

• Moffett, George D. (1994) Critical Masses, Chap.7, "A World Population Plan of Action: The International Policy Response", pp.262-291 (skim book).
• Westoff, Charles F. (1995) "International Population Policy" Society (in press) .
• Wulf, Deirdre and Peters D. Willson (1984). "Global Politics in Mexico City," Family Planning Perspectives 16(5):228-232.
• Donaldson, Peter and Charles Keely (1988). "Population and Family Planning: An International Perspective," Family Planning Perspectives 20(6):307-311, Nov./De c.
• Teitelbaum, Michael and Jay Winter.(1985). The Fear of Population Decline, Academic Press. "Conclusions" pp.129-155.
• Conly, Shanti and Sharon Camp (1992). China's Family Planning Program. Population Crisis Committee, Washington,D.C..
• Westoff, Charles F. (Feb. 6, 1994) New York Times Magazine