Population Pressure And Cultural Adjustment

Download Population Pressure And Cultural Adjustment full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Population Pressure And Cultural Adjustment ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

Author : Virginia Deane Abernethy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351298798
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment by : Virginia Deane Abernethy

Download or read book Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment written by Virginia Deane Abernethy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

Author : Virginia Abernethy
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781412804592
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment by : Virginia Abernethy

Download or read book Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment written by Virginia Abernethy and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Vanishing American Dream

Author : Virginia Deane Abernethy
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412862302
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Vanishing American Dream by : Virginia Deane Abernethy

Download or read book The Vanishing American Dream written by Virginia Deane Abernethy and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Population Politics

Author : Virginia Abernethy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351320823
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Population Politics by : Virginia Abernethy

Download or read book Population Politics written by Virginia Abernethy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Human Adaptation and Population Growth

Author : David S. Kleinman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780916672188
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (721 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Human Adaptation and Population Growth by : David S. Kleinman

Download or read book Human Adaptation and Population Growth written by David S. Kleinman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Author : Dean E. Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521272599
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process by : Dean E. Arnold

Download or read book Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process written by Dean E. Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theory of ceramics that elucidates the complex relationship between culture, pottery and society.

Demography, Territory & Law: Rules of Animal & Human Populations

Author : Sheila Newman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291170928
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

Download or read book Demography, Territory & Law: Rules of Animal & Human Populations written by Sheila Newman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

Author : Robert Boyd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883122
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Origin and Evolution of Cultures by : Robert Boyd

Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Cultures written by Robert Boyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

Demography - Volume I

Author : Zeng Yi
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1848263074
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Demography - Volume I by : Zeng Yi

Download or read book Demography - Volume I written by Zeng Yi and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Population Growth: Anthropological Implications

Author : University of Pennsylvania. Near East Center
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Population Growth: Anthropological Implications by : University of Pennsylvania. Near East Center

Download or read book Population Growth: Anthropological Implications written by University of Pennsylvania. Near East Center and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this book explore a new and important field of study--the interrelationship between population growth and decline and changes in technology, culture, and social organization. They were generated by a discussion of Ester Boserup's anti-Malthusian theory that the increased pressures of population on resources triggered evolutionary changes in the technology, culture, and social organization of historical agricultural societies. Each author has reacted to the "Boserup Model" both in terms of his own sets of data and his personal theoretical inclinations; yet a common theme emerges--that changes in population pressure are a "sometimes gentle, sometimes compelling [but] ever-present force" in history and society.Chapters are arranged according to the types of data they present. The first half of the book deals with agriculture as a subsistence base, while the second half treats broader problems of cultural change or intensification in the context of technological diversity. The book itself is based on a conference, "Population, Resources, and Technology," which was organized by anthropology professor Brian Spooner and held at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.Contents: "The Evolution of Early Agriculture and Culture in Greater Mesopotamia: A Trial Model, " Philip E. L. Smith and T. Cuyler Young, Jr.; "Demography and the "Urban Revolution" in Lowland Mesopotamia, " Robert McC. Adams; "From Autonomous Villages to the State, a Numerical Estimation, " Robert L. Carneiro; "A Regional Population in Egypt to circa 600 B.C., " David O'Connor; "Population, Agricultural History, and Societal Evolution in Mesoamerica, " William T. Sanders; "Plow and Population in Temperate Europe, " Bernard Wailes; "Some Aspects of Agriculture in Taita, " Alfred Harris; "Farm Labor and the Evolution of Food Production, " Bennet Bronson; "Sacred Power and Centralization: Aspects of Political Adaptation in Africa, " Robert McC. Netting; "The Iranian Deserts, " Brian Spooner; "Demographic Aspects of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism, " Robert B. Ekvall; "Population Growth and Political Centralization, " Don E. Dumond; "Prehistoric Population Growth and Subsistence Change in Eskimo Alaska, " Don E. Dumond; "Population Growth and the Beginnings of Sedentary Life among the !Kung Bushmen, " Richard B. Lee; "The Intensification of Social Life among the !Kung Bushmen, " Richard B. Lee; "Biological Factors in Population Control, " Solomon H. Katz; "The Viewpoint of Historical Demography, " John D. Durand.

The Mankind Quarterly

Author : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Mankind Quarterly by : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)

Download or read book The Mankind Quarterly written by Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian-Pacific & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Asian-Pacific & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics by :

Download or read book Asian-Pacific & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environment, Subsistence and System

Author : R. F. Ellen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521287036
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Environment, Subsistence and System by : R. F. Ellen

Download or read book Environment, Subsistence and System written by R. F. Ellen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth In Developing Countries

Author : Institut National d'etudes Demographiques
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135843228
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth In Developing Countries by : Institut National d'etudes Demographiques

Download or read book Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth In Developing Countries written by Institut National d'etudes Demographiques and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Asian & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Asian & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics by :

Download or read book Asian & Worldwide Documents on Population Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Demographics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Demographics by :

Download or read book American Demographics written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immigrants and Cultural Adaptation in the American Workplace

Author : Khalid M. Alkhazraji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135655979
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Immigrants and Cultural Adaptation in the American Workplace by : Khalid M. Alkhazraji

Download or read book Immigrants and Cultural Adaptation in the American Workplace written by Khalid M. Alkhazraji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's managers must deal with a wide variety of employee differences in ethnic backgrounds, values, lifestyles, and needs. This book presents a model of employee acculturation, investigating how Muslim employees adapt to U.S. national and organizational cultures The study investigates the relationships between respondents' acculturation patterns, their degree of religiosity, degree of collective or individual orientation, the extent of perceived discrepancies between their original cultures and U.S. organizational culture, and their national origin, examining demographic variables such as age, gender, education, occupation, and number of years lived and worked in the U.S Responses from 339 Muslims revealed that most were inclined to retain their original culture rather than adopting U.S. national culture. In contrast, most accepted U.S. organizational cultures. The analysis of the practical implications of these findings for business management highlights a number of practical strategies for coping with an increasingly multicultural workforce (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1993; revised with new preface, and index)