Population Pressure And Cultural Adjustment

Author : Virginia Deane Abernethy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351298797

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Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment by Virginia Deane Abernethy Pdf

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates that have sundered the field of policy and population. In real world time and space, cultural adjustments that balance population and resources are made over a long stretch in relatively stable or known environments. These adjustments also operate in processes that involve technological advances that appear to increase carrying capacity, and these usually act to support and underwrite population growth in any given area. In her new introduction to this first paperback edition, Abernethy shows how many of the cultural changes the book predicted in 1979 have come to pass. She details a complex of behaviors that favor single life-styles or small family size that have contributed to low fertility rates among native-born Americans while fertility rates among immigrants continue to climb. Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment is not simply a theoretical slogan, but discusses a rich set of different cultural situations where this homeostatic process has been disrupted or aborted. Often, disruption occurs after the infusion of foreign value systems as well as new forms of technological innovation, or when highly permeable social boundaries result in the importation of resources for which the limits and consequences are not fully appreciated by the host population. This work will inevitably be controversial because of its implications for the limits as well as the potential of public policy in both advanced and underdeveloped societies.

Author : Virginia Abernethy
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412804590

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Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment by Virginia Abernethy Pdf

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates that have sundered the field of policy and population. In real world time and space, cultural adjustments that balance population and resources are made over a long stretch in relatively stable or known environments. These adjustments also operate in processes that involve technological advances that appear to increase carrying capacity, and these usually act to support and underwrite population growth in any given area. In her new introduction to this first paperback edition, Abernethy shows how many of the cultural changes the book predicted in 1979 have come to pass. She details a complex of behaviors that favor single life-styles or small family size that have contributed to low fertility rates among native-born Americans while fertility rates among immigrants continue to climb. Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment is not simply a theoretical slogan, but discusses a rich set of different cultural situations where this homeostatic process has been disrupted or aborted. Often, disruption occurs after the infusion of foreign value systems as well as new forms of technological innovation, or when highly permeable social boundaries result in the importation of resources for which the limits and consequences are not fully appreciated by the host population. This work will inevitably be controversial because of its implications for the limits as well as the potential of public policy in both advanced and underdeveloped societies. Virginia Deane Abernethy is professor emeritus of Psychiatry [Anthropology] at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is the author of Population Politics, with an introduction by Garrett Hardin, and issued by Transaction Publishers in 2000.

Author : Virginia Deane Abernethy
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412862301

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The Vanishing American Dream by Virginia Deane Abernethy Pdf

The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government—abetted by mass media—that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans’ tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement by a realistic outlook. The Vanishing American Dream posits solutions to get America back on the right track. Abernethy sees population growth driven by mass immigration as a major cause of economic and cultural changes that have been detrimental to most Americans. The environment has been degraded by over-crowding and increasing demands on natural resources. Work is cheapened by explosive growth in the labor force creating a buyer’s market. One salary or wage no longer supports a family and educates children. Women working outside the home is a necessity, not a choice, for most American families. Futhermore, feminism, aimed originally at balanced gender roles, has been turned viciously against males of all ages and ultimately against females through degrading their traditional and valuable contributions. Abernethy proposes that Americans need time to regroup, untroubled by a continuing influx of foreign peoples. The family, small business, and responsive local government are centers around which a solvent and confident citizenry can prosper again.

Author : Virginia Abernethy,Garrett Hardin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351320825

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Population Politics by Virginia Abernethy,Garrett Hardin Pdf

International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite international efforts confounds demographers. 'Population Politics' brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies. Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows why policies hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Egypt are but a few of the countries Abernethy examines, showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors that have caused population growth can be harnessed to stabilize population size. 'Population Politics' is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel. Virginia D. Abernethy is professor emeritus of psychiatry (anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School and was for 11 years the editor of the scholarly journal 'Population and Environment. Garrett Hardin is emeritus professor of human ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Author : John C. Caldwell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402044984

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Demographic Transition Theory by John C. Caldwell Pdf

This book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. It asks if fluctuating populations is a new phenomenon, or if there has long been an inherent tendency in Man to maximize survival and to control family size.

Author : Professor J Rose,J. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317938644

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Population Problems by Professor J Rose,J. Rose Pdf

The effects of the rapidly expanding human population on the environment and the planet's future is a matter of increasing concern and lively debate. This timely collection of essays discusses some of the most important aspects of the population growth phenomenon and offers potential solutions. Chapters analyse population dynamics, carrying capacity of the environment, water and food supply, effects on tribal societies, and the AIDS pandemic.

Author : Dean E. Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521272599

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Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process by Dean E. Arnold Pdf

A theory of ceramics that elucidates the complex relationship between culture, pottery and society.

Author : David S. Kleinman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fertility, Human
ISBN : UCSC:32106005026478

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Human Adaptation and Population Growth by David S. Kleinman Pdf

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Author : Sheila Newman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781291170924

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Demography, Territory & Law: Rules of Animal & Human Populations by Sheila Newman Pdf

Newman shows how one land tenure and inheritance system can doom us to overpopulation and poverty, where the other system can and does promote steady-state economies --Back cover.

Author : Zeng Yi
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263079

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Demography - Volume I by Zeng Yi Pdf

According to the classic and widely accepted statement by Hauser and Duncan (1959: 2), demography is defined as “the study of the size, territorial distribution, and components of population, changes therein, and components of such changes.” Almost all disciplines of social sciences and most disciplines of natural sciences deal with human beings in one way or another, either directly or indirectly. Furthermore, demographic concepts (e.g., birth rate, death rate, and migration) and methods and analysis strategies (e.g., life table analysis) can be readily extended to other species (insects, animals, plants, etc.) and inanimate collectives (enterprises, automobiles, etc.). Clearly, demography is an important thematic field in science and it may provide the empirical foundation for studying human beings, animals, and inanimate collectives on which other relevant scientific research is built. The volume aims to be of value to the various audiences of both non-specialists and experts who seek a comprehensive understanding of issues related to human population. As reviewed in the very beginning of the Theme Introduction, “interdisciplinary” is one of the three major features of demography. Given the rapid development in techniques for collecting not only demographic data but also other related data concerning health, biomarkers, genetics, behaviors, and social and natural environments in conventional population surveys, as well as rapidly enhancing computing powers, this volume shows and concludes that demography will be even more interdisciplinary in the coming decades. A notable example is that the cross-field “marriage” between bio-medical sciences and demography will lead us to enter an era in which bio-medical and demographic methods will be well integrated. As indicated by James R. Carey and James W. Vaupel in Chapter 13 of this volume, the bio-demographic branches of demography are vibrant areas of demographic research that are rapidly growing and that have great potential to enrich and enlarge the domain of demography. Not only can demographers learn much from biologists and epidemiologists, but demographers can contribute much to research on life in general and to research on population health. The increasing availability of data sources and much enhanced computing/internet power will also lead demography to be more interactive with the other fields, such as psychology, environmental science, economics, business and management, etc. As discussed in this volume’s Chapter 11 by Swanson and Pol, for example, it is now possible to link conventional demographic data sources of census, surveys, and vital statistics with administrative records such as social security, tax reporting, medical insurance, hospital records, school registration, supermarket purchasing cards use, etc., while protecting individuals’ privacy. Such linkages will substantially increase the value of demographic methods, surveys and administrative records for scientific research and policy analysis, as well as the applicability of demography in business and governmental decision making processes.

Author : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : NWU:35556037455573

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The Mankind Quarterly by Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : IND:30000088303668

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Asian-Pacific & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Institut National d'etudes Demographiques
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135843229

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Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth In Developing Countries by Institut National d'etudes Demographiques Pdf

First Published in 1991. This book holds the proceedings of the United Nations Institut national d' etudes demographiques Expert Group Meeting, New York, held on the 23-26 August 1988. Topics include the global trends in population growth, adaptation to rapid population growth, aspects and normative problems.

Author : R. F. Ellen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521287030

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Environment, Subsistence and System by R. F. Ellen Pdf

Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental relations in general and on contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status of theory, domain or discipline, it can be represented as a single 'problematic' that historically has acquired some degree of autonomy and which continues to make a significant contribution to a wider anthropology. Dr Ellen introduces his subject matter through an extended and systematic discussion of some major frameworks developed within the last hundred years to examine and explain facets of the relationship between culture, social organization and the environment: determinism, possibilism, cultural ecology, systems theory and ideas derived from modern biology. He follows this with a detailed review and appraisal of important recent research involving the use of ecological models, methods and data. This original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations will be of considerable interest to all students and researchers concerned with understanding the nature of the relationship between human beings and their environments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Demographic surveys
ISBN : UOM:39015027269185

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American Demographics by Anonim Pdf