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POPULATION & HEALTH Qualifying Exam Reading List DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SUMMER 2014 1 POPULATION STUDIES Overview - The following books provide a comprehensive overview of population studies. Use these as “reference” guides to help synthesize/integrate the material, or perhaps as a starting point to provide an overview of Population Studies. These textbooks also provide a review of topics related to demographic data, measures, and models. Demeny P & McNicoll G, eds. 2003. Encylclopedia of Population. New York. Macmillian Reference USA (2 volumes). (Skim, on almost any topic) Gordis, Leon. 2013. Epidemiology. 5th edition. Saunders Palmore, James A. and Robert G. Gardner. 1994. Measuring Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase: A Self-Teaching Guide to Elementary Measures . Honolulu: Population Institute: East West Center. Preston, Samuel, Patrick Heuveline, and Michel Guillot. 2001. Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes . Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers. Poston, Dudley & Bouvier, Leon. 2010. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography. Cambridge University Press. Rowland, Donald. Demographic Methods & Concepts . Oxford University Press. Siegel, Jacob S. and David A. Swanson, eds. 2004. The Methods and Materials of Demography . Second edition. New York: Elsevier. Demographic Trends and Stats Population Reference Bureau. www.prb.org. World Population Data Sheet (current stats and trends for all nations). Downloadable PDF, updated annually. Population Dynamics & Theories - Major concepts to be very familiar with: Demographic Transition & Epidemiologic Transition Bongaarts, John. 1996. “Population Pressure and Food Supply in the Developing World.” Population and Development Review . 22: 483-504. Boserup, Ester. 1976. “Environment, Population, and Technology in Primitive Societies.” Population and Development Review. 2: 21-36. Caldwell, J. 2004. “Demographic Theory: The Long View. Population & Development Review, 30 (2): 297-316. Coale, Ansley. “How a Population Ages or Grows Younger” Reprinted in K. Kammeyer, Population Studies , 2 nd edition. 33-41 . OR in S. W. Menard and E. W. Moen, Perspectives on Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 365-369. OR in Ronald Freedman Population: A Vital Revolution . Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, pg 47-58. Coale, Ansley. 1957. “How the Age Distribution of a Human Population is Determined” reprinted in Nathan Keyfitz & David Smith Mathematical Demography . Springer: Berlin. 167-172. Cohen, Joel E. 1995. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: WW Norton. (especially “Chapter 5: Human Population History”) Cutler, D & Miller, G. 2005. “The role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 21 st Century United States.” Demography , 42 (1): 1-22. 2 Cutler, D, Deaton, A, Lleras-Muney, A. 2006. “The determinants of mortality.” Journal of Economic Perspectives , 20 (6): 97-120. Dyson, Tim. 2012. “Causes and Consequences of Skewed Sex Ratios” Annual Review of Sociology, 3 8: 443-461.. Easterlin, Richard A. 1996. Growth Triumphant: The 21 st Century in Historical Perspective . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Edwards, R. & Tuljapurkar, S. 2005. “Inequality in life spans and a new perspective on mortality convergence across industrialized countries.” Population and Development Review, 31 (4): 741- 764. Gutmann, Myron, Deane, Glenn; Merchant, Emily; Sylvester, Kenneth. 2011. “Introduction.” In Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies: International Studies in Population , 9: 1-17. Heuveline, P, Guillot, M, Gwatkin, D. 2003. “The uneven tide of health transition.” Social Science and Medicine, 55 (2): 313-322. Kent, Mary & Carl Haub. 2005. “Global Demographic Divide.” Population Bulletin. 60: 4. See Population Reference Bureau website. http://www.prb.org/ Keyfitz, Nathan. 1996. “Population Growth, Development and the Environment.” Population Studies. 50: 335-359. Kirk, Dudley. 1996. “Demographic Transition Theory” Population Studies. 50: 361-387. Malthus, Thomas. 1798. “An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth.” Reprinted in Louise B. Young Population in Perspective . New York: Oxford University Press: 92-112. McKeown, Thomas. 1976. The Modern Rise of Population . London: Academic Press. Olshansky SJ, Ault AB. 1986. “The fourth stage of the epidemiologic transition: The age of delayed degenerative diseases.” Milbank Quarterly 64(3): 355-391. Omran, Abdel R. 1971. “The epidemiologic transition: A theory of the epidemiology of population change.” Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 49(4): 509-38. Or (2005) The Milbank Quarterly. 83(4): 731-757. Palmore, Erdmore. 1978. “When Can Age, Period and Cohort be Separated?” Social Forces 1: 282-295. Riley, J. 2005. “The timing and pace of health transitions around the world.” Population & Development Review 31(4):741-764. Rogers, Richard G., and Robert Hackenberg. 1989. “Extending epidemiologic transition theory: A new stage.” Social Biology 34(3-4): 234-43. Ryder, Norman B. 1964. “Notes on the Concept of a Population.” American Journal of Sociology. 69: 447-463. Soars, R. 2007. “On the determinants of mortality reductuions in the developing world.” Population and Development Review , 33 (2): 247-288 Salomon, J. & C. Murray. 2002. “The Epidemiologic Transition Revisited.” Population & Development Review 28 (2):205-28. Tienda, Marta. 2002. “Demography and the Social Contract.” Demography. 39: 587-616. Watkins, Susan Cotts. 1993. “If All We Knew About Women is What We Read in Demography” Demography . 30: 551-577. Family - Causes and Consequences of Demographic Change Bumpass, Larry L. 1990. “What’s Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demographic and Institutional Change.” Demography 27:483-498. Bumpass, Larry L., and Hsien-Hen Lu. 2000. “Trends in cohabitation and implications for children's family contexts in the United States.” Population Studies 54:29–41. 3 Cherlin, Andrew J. 2006. Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage . Enlarged revised edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Cherlin, Andrew J. 2004. “The deinstitutionalization of American marriage.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66:848-861. Federici N, Mason KO, Sogner S (eds.), Women’s Position and Demographic Change , Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Pres, pp. 190-212. Goldstein, J. R. 1999. “The Leveling of Divorce in the United States.” Demography 36:409-414 Goldstein, Joshua R. And Catherine T. Kenney. 2001. “Marriage Delayed or Marriage Forgone? New Cohort Forecasts of First Marriage for U.S. Women.” American Sociological Review 66:506-519. Lichter, Daniel T., Diane K. McLaughlin, George Kephart, and David J. Landry. 1992. “Race and the retreat from marriage: a shortage of marriageable men?” American Sociological Review 57:781-799 Moore, Mignon R. and Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. 2013. “LGBT Sexuality and Families at the Start of the Twenty-First Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 39: 491-507 Oppenheimer, Valerie K. 1997. “Women’s employment and the gain to marriage: The specialization and trading model.” Annual Review of Sociology 23:431-453. Ruggles, Steven. 1997. “The Rise of Divorce and Separation in the United States, 1880-1990.” Demography 34:455-466. See also comments in same issue. Ruggles, Steven. 2012. The Future of Historical Family Demography. Annual Review of Sociology, 28: 423-441. Seltzer, Judith A., Christine A. Bachrach, Suzanne M. Bianchi, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Lynne M. Casper, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Thomas A. DiPrete, V. Joseph Hotz, S. Philip Morgan, Seth G. Sanders and Duncan Thomas. 2005. “Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67:908-925. Seltzer, Judith A. and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 2013. “Demographic Change and Parent-Child Relationships in Adulthood.” Annual Review of Sociology 39: 275-290 Smock, Pamela J. 2000. “Cohabitation in the United States: An Appraisal of Research Themes, Findings, and Implications.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:1-20. Sweeney, Megan M. and Julie A. Phillips. 2004. “Understanding Racial Differences in Marital Disruption: Recent Trends and Explanations.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 639-650. Thornton, Arland. 2001. “The Developmental Paradigm: Reading History Sideways and Family Change.” Demography. 38: 449-466. Watkins, Susan C., Jane A. Menken, and John Bongaarts. 1987. “Demographic Foundations of Family Change.” American Sociological Review 52:346-358. Demography is the study of three social processes that influence the composition, change, and size of populations: MORTALITY, FERTILITY, MIGRATION Each of these concepts is discussed separately in its own subsection. There are additional sections on: POPULATION AGING and SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF HEALTH Readings related to FAMILY are interspersed across all sections. 4 MORTALITY RTALITY History, Trends, Theories - See sections above called “Population Dynamics &Population Theories” – particularly the readings related to Demographic Transition and Epidemiologic Transition Caldwell JC. 2001. “Demographers and the study of mortality: Scope, perspectives, and theory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954: 19-34. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, J.S. and Grahn D. 1996. Continuing the search for a law of mortality. Population and Development Review . 22:231-264. Cossman, J. et al. 2007. “Persistent clusters of mortality in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health 97: 2148-150. Cutler, D. & G. Miller, 2005. “The role of public health improvements in health advances: