Contemporary Population Challenges

Pre-requisites: Background knowledge in relevant subjects, mainly Sociology, social research methods, economics and sociology of culture.

Course objectives: Becoming familiar with the newest empirical data and theoretical paradigms, as well as understanding and covering a fair amount of statistical data; possibilities for using that data in social demographic analysis and creating interpretative theoretical frameworks.

Course description: We will look at important themes in: modern demographics as inter-disciplinary(low birth rates and population growth, changes in the age structure of a society, aging, migrations- international, work-related and asylum-related). The connection between social and demographic occurrences, understanding how the current demographic situation affects possibilities, breadth and span of social change, and vice versa. Interpreting population phenomena from a broader, humanistic perspective, combining perspectives from various social sciences, from economics to sociology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and applying respective paradigms of postmodernism, feminism etc. As a result, candidates should be able to apply an inter-disciplinary approach to a gamut of socio-demographic issues and problems, bringing clarity and depth to issues by combining statistical, quantitative, formal-demographic and qualitative sociological methods, finding new cases to study and creating new, original interpretations by employing the sociological imagination.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to apply an inter-disciplinary approach to a gamut of socio-demographic issues and problems; and bring clarity and depth to issues by combining statistical, quantitative, formal-demographic and qualitative sociological methods to case studies.

Contemporary Population Challenges

Pre-requisites: Background knowledge in relevant subjects, mainly Sociology, social research methods, economics and sociology of culture.

Course objectives: Becoming familiar with the newest empirical data and theoretical paradigms, as well as understanding and covering a fair amount of statistical data; possibilities for using that data in social demographic analysis and creating interpretative theoretical frameworks.

Course description: We will look at important themes in: modern demographics as inter-disciplinary(low birth rates and population growth, changes in the age structure of a society, aging, migrations- international, work-related and asylum-related). The connection between social and demographic occurrences, understanding how the current demographic situation affects possibilities, breadth and span of social change, and vice versa. Interpreting population phenomena from a broader, humanistic perspective, combining perspectives from various social sciences, from economics to sociology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and applying respective paradigms of postmodernism, feminism etc. As a result, candidates should be able to apply an inter-disciplinary approach to a gamut of socio-demographic issues and problems, bringing clarity and depth to issues by combining statistical, quantitative, formal-demographic and qualitative sociological methods, finding new cases to study and creating new, original interpretations by employing the sociological imagination.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to apply an inter-disciplinary approach to a gamut of socio-demographic issues and problems; and bring clarity and depth to issues by combining statistical, quantitative, formal-demographic and qualitative sociological methods to case studies.

Literature/Reading:

• Avramov, Dragana (1993) Pojedinac, porodica i stanovništvo u raskoraku, Beograd, Naučna knjiga;
• Bobic, Mirjana 2007) Demografija i Sociologija : Veza ili Sinteza, Beograd: Sluzbeni Glasnik, R
• Bobić, Mirjana (2006) Blokirana transformacija bračnosti u Srbiji - kašnjenje ili izostanak "Druge demografske tranzicije"", u: Tomanović, S, Društvo u previranju:Beograd: ISI FF
• Philipov, Dimiter and Jurgen Dorbritz (2003) Demographic Consequences of Economic transition of Central and Eastern Europe, Strasbourgh: Council of Europe Publishing, Population Studies, No39
• Macura, Miroslav, Alphonse L. MacDonald and Werner Haug (2005) The New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses, Unated Nations: NEw York and Geneva
• Avramov, Dragana (2002) People, Demography and Social Exclusion, Strasbourgh, Popoulation Studies, No37
• Riley, Nancy (2001) Demography in the Age of Postmodern, Cambridge University Press.
• Bobić, Mirjana (2003) Brak ili/i partnerstvo: demografsko sociološka studija, Beograd, ISI FF i Čigoja štampa;
• Stycos, Mayone J. (ed) (1989) Demography as an Interdiscipline, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Kertzer and Tom Fricke, eds (1997) Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis, The University of Chicago Press,