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- Title
SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND POPULATION RESEARCH.
- Authors
Beers, Howard W.
- Abstract
Mass data on numbers, places, and kinds of people, and particularly of their movements in space and time, accumulate in the U.S. at an accelerating rate, and demographers have achieved high competence in their analysis of large-scale observations. There is available much objective and statistical material about the populations of states, regions, and nations. The accessibility of this material makes possible the single argument of this paper, which is, to use analogy, that the U.S. population information is like an unfinished painting. This article presents a running sketch of proposals for socio-demographic research with one further comment on the implied conditions of investigation. The search to which each study relates insofar as population analysis is concerned, is two-fold. On the one hand, it is for clusters of factors that operate as patterns within a migration or fertility trend. On the other, it is a search for the of elements which are capable of independent variation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences; CENSUS
- Publication
Social Forces, 1940, Vol 19, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2571300