Catálogo de libros Población Y Demografía - Librería Proteo (Málaga).

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent 'practice turn' in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are 'done.' This book introduces the concept of 'doing transitions' and its implications for theories and me...

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71,20 €

Doing Transitions in the Life Course

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent 'practice turn' in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are 'done.' This book introduces the concept of 'doing transitions' and its implications for theories and me...

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47,95 €

Doing Transitions in the Life Course

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent 'practice turn' in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are 'done.' This book introduces the concept of 'doing transitions' and its implications for theories and me...

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60,26 €

From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians

N. Jayaram

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with first-hand fieldwork data to portray human ingenuity in terms of social reconstitution and community building in...

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47,61 €

Por qué las mujeres prefieren hombres mayores que se mueren antes

Federico J Casimiro-Soriguer Escofet

El libro aborda, ya desde los primeros capítulos, la cuestión del sexo y del género, tan de actualidad. Pero no termina ahí sino que, a partir de la pregunta formulada ya desde el título (¿Por qué las mujeres se casan con hombres mayores que se mueren antes?) intenta contextualizar el sexo y el género como resultado de la interacción entre la filogenia (biología) y la cultura. ...

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24,91 €

Fertility Transition in the Developing World

Dennis Hodgson / John Bongaarts

This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the mid-20th century. In the 1950s contraceptive use was rare and women typically spend most of their reproductive years bearing and rearing children. By 2020 fe...

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47,29 €

Fertility Transition in the Developing World

Dennis Hodgson / John Bongaarts

This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the mid-20th century. In the 1950s contraceptive use was rare and women typically spend most of their reproductive years bearing and rearing children. By 2020 fe...

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48,48 €

Subjective Views of Aging

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging. This concept refers to the way individuals conceptualize and perceive the aging process. Social and cultural perceptions regarding older adults are incorporated and internalized into views people hold regarding their own aging process. The book contains three parts which present theoretical, empirical, and translati...

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47,31 €

Towards Newborn Survival

Sandhya R. Mahapatro

This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study. It provides important lessons for other low-performing countries, in similar socioeconomic contexts, where newborn survival is a major challenge.The volume opens with a brief account of the trends and regional variations in n...

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52,86 €

Towards Newborn Survival

Sandhya R. Mahapatro

This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study. It provides important lessons for other low-performing countries, in similar socioeconomic contexts, where newborn survival is a major challenge.The volume opens with a brief account of the trends and regional variations in n...

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48,52 €

Spannungsfeld Flüchtlinge

Christel Kumbruck

Dieses Buch analysiert wissenschaftlich fundiert und zugleich allgemeinverständlich das Engagement von Menschen, die sich für die Aufnahme von Geflüchteten oder gegen die deutsche Flüchtlingspolitik engagieren, sowie ihre Motive, Emotionen, Denk- und Argumentationsweisen. Dabei werden psychologische Mechanismen, die ursächlich für die viel diskutierte Polarisierung unserer mode...

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38,12 €

Mapping Identity-Induced Marginalisation in India

This book discusses the issues of inequality and marginalization in India. The first section of the book contextualizes sociological traditions for the scrutiny of subaltern discourse on discrimination. The chapters in the section explore self-identity, ’margins’ in sociological traditions, subalternity and exclusion, citizenship issues of de-notified tribes, the role of relig...

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46,74 €

Ageing and Migration in a Global Context

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states’ ol...

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158,95 €

Qualitative Sekundäranalyse anhand der Dokumentarischen Methode

Judith Bauer

Eine Weiterentwicklung der stationären Langzeitpflege in Richtung einer Quartiersöffnung wird momentan vielfach diskutiert und es entstehen verschiedene neue Quartiersprojekte, die das Ziel haben, die stationäre Altenhilfe nach außen in den Sozialraum zu öffnen. Um Barrieren und Chancen eines solchen Öffnungsprozesses zu untersuchen, wurde das GALINDA Projekt (Gutes Altern in R...

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84,81 €

Environmental & Social Justice Challenges Near America’s Most Popular Museums, Parks, Zoos & Other Heritage Attractions

Michael Greenberg

This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near America’s most popular heritage attractions. These include over 100 places that host national parks (e.g., Glacier, Yellowstone), zoos (e.g., Bronx, Henry Doorly), urban parks (e.g., Central Park, Fairmount), grand concourses (e.g., 5th Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue), and multiple museums and galleries (e.g., Na...

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159,27 €

Environmental & Social Justice Challenges Near America’s Most Popular Museums, Parks, Zoos & Other Heritage Attractions

Michael Greenberg

This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near America’s most popular heritage attractions. These include over 100 places that host national parks (e.g., Glacier, Yellowstone), zoos (e.g., Bronx, Henry Doorly), urban parks (e.g., Central Park, Fairmount), grand concourses (e.g., 5th Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue), and multiple museums and galleries (e.g., Na...

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48,18 €

Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes...

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47,69 €

Understanding the Context of Cognitive Aging

This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental and physical conditions. The book examines the sources of vulnerability and their consequences for Mexican-or...

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194,92 €

Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society

Alejandro Klein

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes su...

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145,41 €

Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society

Alejandro Klein

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes su...

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48,40 €

Aktives Altern im digitalen Zeitalter

Altersgerechte Assistenzsysteme leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag, die Lebensumgebung mit intelligenter Technik gesundheitsfördernder und selbstbestimmt zu gestalten. Diverse Sensoren, Geräte und Dienste (z.B. Sturzmeldesysteme, Exergames und Fitnessprogramme) sind heute verfügbar, jedoch steckt die Überprüfung der Wirksamkeit dieser Applikationen noch in den Kinderschuhen. Schla...

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93,31 €

Generation, Ungleichheit, Technik

Bill Pottharst

In diesem Buch wird versucht, die Theorieansätze der Technikgenerationen mit jenen der sozialen Ungleichheit auf eine Weise zu verbinden, dass Rückschlüsse auf die Technikakzeptanz, die Technikkompetenz und die Techniknutzung im höheren Lebensalter abgeleitet werden können. Technikroutinen werden im höheren Lebensalter insbesondere durch Prägungen im Lebensverlauf und die...

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87,04 €

Gender Before Birth in India

Sutapa Bandyopadhyay Neogi

This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this book. It analyses the social and cultural practices and establishes linkages with modern methods of scientific i...

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148,17 €

Migration Patterns and Intentions of Floating Population in Transitional China

Hengyu Gu / Tiyan Shen / Xin Lao

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels. Since the 1990s, accompanying the rapid urbanization, an important feature of China’s social transition is its large-scale interregional migration, which has reshaped China’s economic geography and population distribution and greatly affected the socio-e...

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208,96 €

Demography of Transgender, Nonbinary and Gender Minority Populations

This book provides the first compilation of demographic research focused on transgender, nonbinary, and gender minority populations. It discusses the measurement and conceptualization challenges that shape demographic knowledge of these populations, including how we capture gender on surveys. It examines our current knowledge of demographic characteristics and health disparitie...

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159,39 €

LAND TENURE & THE REVOLUTION IN DEMOCRACY & BIRTH-CONTROL IN FRANCE

SHEILA NEWMAN

The French Revolution was both democratic and demographic and did not begin and end in 1789. The French were able to sustain it over several generations because they retained a relatively clan-based land-tenure system, able to preserve intergenerational values and projects and to exploit secret printing, secret societies - including Freemasonry - and secret information via a ti...

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34,55 €

Digital Health Technology for Better Aging

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging. Aging populations are one of the 21st century’s biggest challenges. National health systems are forced to adapt in order to provide adequate and affordable care. Innovation, driven by digital technology, is a key to improving quality of life and encouraging healthy living. Well-designed technology...

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148,86 €

International Handbook of Population Policies

This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized experts’ essays that provide a current and comprehensive examination of all dimensions of international population policies. The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and empirical evidence for policy formation, the policy levers and modelling, as well as the new policy challenges. The section Theor...

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310,37 €

Towards a Southern Approach to Sex Work

Habiba Sultana

This book explores sex work in Asia, documenting the lived experiences of sex workers in Bangladesh, considering the complex realities of their day-to-day lives and the ways they negotiate their working conditions and relationships. It contributes to feminist scholarship on sex work, by offering a much needed southern perspective. ...

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73,64 €

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