Social Demography

Social demography examines how population important characteristics such as population are size density dispersion sex distribution and age distribution that are influenced by social and cultural factors. Social demography is the study of a society's migration patterns birth and death rates also involves data totals and statistics. The book contains five units with most of basic concepts of Social Demography. Unit-I contains Basic concepts Social Demography - Fertility Mortality Migration. Unit-II contains Population theories: Malthusian Theory Demographic Transition Theory and Optimum Theory of population. Unit-III contains Components of Population change: Fertility mortality and migration. Unit-IV Contains Population problems: Changing global scenario of Population Population growth in India. Population structure and characteristics: Causes of population explosion in India and Problems of rapid population growth in India. Unit-V contains Family Planning and Family Welfare programme in India Population education and Population Policy of India.