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Population (english edition)
I.N.E.D

I.S.B.N.2733230770
176 pages

p. 15 à 31
doi: en cours

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Debate on the future of the discipline

Volume 62 2007/1

Discipline > Revue > Sommaire > Résumé

• Demography is no longer a slow-flowing river: a rapid historical overview

• Achievements and assets of demography

— A social science

— A largely independent discipline

— Rigorous methodology

— Recent new research themes

— A broader range of quantitative tools

— Growing concern for how and why

— A profession

• Demography’s weaknesses and constraints

— Relative isolation among the social sciences

— A “small” discipline

— Demography’s fragmentation

— Insufficient progress in explanation

— Too discreet a science?

• Potential risks

— Compartmentalization

— Towards “statistical extremism”?

— Leaving explanation to others?

— Is university demography losing steam?

• Whither demography and whither demographers?

• Concluding remarks

• References