Sociology 621, Spring 2012
Population and Society
2:30-5:15pm Wednesdays, EPPN 303
Professor Laura Sanchez
226 Williams Hall, 2-7252
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30 to 2pm or by appointment
Population and Society is a central course for graduate students in demography and
sociology. This general course offers a chance for scholars to apply social theory to the study of
basic research and measurement issues. The core goal is to develop an appreciation for the
concept of a population. We will study how populations have character, impact, momentum, and
expression within and across societies and cultures. We will explore the meaning behind the
statement that “a population is an entity with constitutive properties that are greater than the sum
of its individuals.” We have five goals this semester:
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to learn classic demographic transition theory and address its continuing relevance for
current demographers and policymakers
to understand the classic Malthusian perspective and debate 21st century visions,
revisions, and criticisms of Malthus’ work
to discuss some of the more important contemporary population trends, scholarly debates
and demographic research issues facing societies, while discussing the increasing
internationalization and globalization of research on demographic processes
to develop a preliminary working knowledge of the key scholars in demography
to acquire a facility for some standard demographic indicators by applying them to the
study of different nations in more and less developed regions of the world
Course requirements
Take-home essay exams. Twice during the semester, you will complete a take-home essay
examination that requires you to use the reading material to answer general questions about basic
issues we addressed. You are expected to synthesize and analyze the material to demonstrate
competency over the readings. The essay exams will be given to you in class the week before
they are due, and the return due dates for the first and second exams are in the 7th and 15th week
of class. Each exam is worth 30% of your grade.
Short paper about a PAA presidential address. On the day the final exam is due, you will turn
in a short 10-12 page paper that critiques a presidential PAA address published in any November
issue of the journal Demography. I will give you the assignment instructions in the 3rd week of
class. You will give an oral presentation of the main points of the PAA address and your
critiques in class in the 15th week, but the final draft is due on the final examination date. This
paper (and presentation) is worth 30% of your grade. The final examination due date is Friday,
May 3rd, 1:15-3:15pm.
Presentation of a weekly reading assignment. You are expected to show your ability to explain
and critique the topics by taking 20 minutes to present the reading material, during one week in
the semester. You may select your week. Your grade will be based on your ability to explain
the issues and offer your critiques of the strengths and limitations of the debates, your view on
what the readings contribute to our understanding of the issues, and your views on what are
important points to consider in future research or theory on the topic. No boring book reports!!!!
This mini-lecture is worth 10% of your grade.
Texts
Gawande, Atul. 2007. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. NY: Henry Holt and Co.
Various articles found on reserve in the Grad Stat Lab or in Blackboard electronic archives.
Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face
cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut
Week 1: Introductions – What are your populations? Awakening the demographer within!
January 11th – Introduction to course, Thomas Friedman’s vision of our global population and
society
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Smil, Vaclav. 2005. “The next 50 years: Unfolding trends.” Population and Development
Review 31: 605-643.
Haub, Carl and O.P. Sharma. 2006. India’s population: Reconciling change and tradition. PRB.
Kent, Mary and Carl Haub. 2005. Global demographic divide. PRB.
Haub, Carl and James Gribble. 2011. The world at 7 billion. PRB.
Lam, David. 2011. “How the world survived the population bomb: Lessons from 50 years of
extraordinary demographic history.” Demography 48: 1231-1262.
McFalls, Joe. 2007. Population: A lively introduction. PRB.
PRB. 2010. World population highlights: Key findings from PRB’s 2010 world population data
sheet.
Go to the following webpages and simply explore!
United Nations Millenium Development Goals: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
2010 U.S. Census: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/
Human Development Report 2011. Sustainability and equity: A better future for all:
http://www.beta.undp.org/undp/en/home/librarypage/hdr/human_developmentreport2011.html
The 7 billionth human: What does this birth mean? The Hopkins Population Center and the Bill and
Melnda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health.:
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/2011/7billion/index.html
Suggested Readings.
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Demeny, Paul. 2004. “Population futures for the next three hundred years: Soft landing or
surprises to come.” Population and Development Review 30: 507-517.
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Hung, Ho-fung and Jaime Kucinskas. 2011. “Globalization and global inequality: Assessing the
impact of the rise of China and India, 1980-2005.” American Journal of Sociology 116: 1478-
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Jacobsen, Linda A. and Mark Mather. 2011. A Post-recession update on U.S. social and
economic trends. PRB.
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 1992. “The agenda of population studies: A commentary and complaint.”
Population and Development Review 18: 399-420.
Podcasts.
 Imagining India: Thomas Friedman and Nanda Nilekani. Live from the New York Public
Library. 1:02min.
 ‘The beautiful and the damned’ of globalized India. NPR.
 Poor get a stake in India’s booming economy. NPR.
Videocasts.
 Nandan Nilekani. Ideas for India’s future. TED. 15min.
 Louise Fresco. Feeding the whole world. TED 18min.
 Hans Rosling. Global population growth. TED. 10min.
 Paul Collier. The ‘bottom billion.’ TED. 16min
Week 2: The emergence of a modern society of demographers
January 18th –
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Transitions in world population. 2004. PRB.
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Hodgson, Dennis. 1991. “Ideological origin of the Population Association of America.”
Population and Development Review 17: 1-34.
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Notestein, Frank W. 1982. “Demography in the United States: A partial account of the
development of the field.” Population and Development Review 8: 651-687.
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Greenhalgh, Susan. 1996. “The social construction of population science: An intellectual,
institutional, and political history of twentieth-century demography.” Comparative Studies in
Society and History 38: 26-66.
Suggested reading.
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Furedi, Frank. 1997. Population and development: A critical introduction. New York: St.
Martin’s Press.
Questions for the day. Thinking about the history of demography as a science and a discipline, what
paths do you think the field will take in the future? What do you think will be the most important issues
that demographers should address on the horizon? Why? What’s your perspective on the tension
between research and activism on the development of the field?
Week 3: Why is a population more than the sum of its parts?
January 25th1.
Mackie, Gerry. 1996. “Ending footbinding and infibulation: A convention account.” American
Sociological Review 61: 999-1017.
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Ryder, Norm B. 1964. “Notes on the concept of a population.” American Journal of Sociology
69: 447-462.
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Ryder, Norm B. 1965. “The cohort as a concept in the study of social change.” American
Sociological Review 30: 843-861.
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Charbit, Yves and Veronique Petit. 2011. “Toward a comprehensive demography: Rethinking
the research agenda on change and response.” Population and Development Review 37: 219-
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Espenshade, Thomas J., Olgiati, and Simon A. Levin. 2011. “On nonstable and stable population
momentum.” Demography 48: 1581-1599.
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Suggested readings.
Bhrolcháin, Máire Ní and Tim Dyson. 2007. “On causation in demography: Issues and
illustrations.” Population and Development Review 33: 1-36.
Coleman, David. 2009. “Divergent patterns in the ethnic transformation of societies.”
Population and Development Review 35: 449-478.
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Question for the day. What are some metaphors that you use to describe, explain, or envision the concept
of a ‘population?’
Week 4: Malthusian impact on population theories
February 1st –
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Gawande, Atul. 2007. Better. New York: Henry Holt.
Suggested reading.
Malthus, T.R. 1999. An essay on the principle of population. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Where would you place your position on the continuum of anti- and pro-Malthusian perspectives on
population growth? Why? What do you think are the most and least compelling parts of Malthus’
original arguments? When and where in your life have you felt the spirit of demography?
Videocasts.
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Stewart Brand. Squatter cities. TED. 3min.
E.O. Wilson. Saving life on earth. TED. 22min.
Week 5: Demographic transition theory
February 8th1.
Friedlander, Dov, Barbara S. Okun, and Sharon Segal. 1999. “The demographic transition then
and now: Processes, perspectives, and analyses.” Journal of Family History 24: 493-533.
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Lesthaeghe, Ron. 2010. The unfolding story of the second demographic transition.” Population
and Development Review 36: 211-251.
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Feng, Wang. 2011. “The future of a demographic overachiever: Long-term implications of the
demographic transition in China.” Population and Development Review 37: 173-190.
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McNicoll, Geoffrey. 2011. “Achievers and laggards in demographic transition: A comparison
of Indonesia and Nigeria.” Population and Development Review 37: 191-21.
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Coleman, David and Robert Rowthorn. 2011. “Who’s afraid of population decline? A critical
examination of its consequences.” Population and Development Review 37: 217-248.
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Eastwood, Robert and Michael Lipton. 2011. “Demographic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa:
How big will the economic dividend be?” Population Studies 65: 9-35.
Suggested reading.
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Kirk, Dudley. 1996. “Demographic transition theory.” Population studies 50: 361-387.
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Davis, Kingsley. 1945. “The world demographic transition.” The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science. 237: 1-11.
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Lee, Ronald D. and David S. Reher. 2011. “Introduction: The landscape of demographic
transition and its aftermath.” Population and Development Review 37: 1-7.
Reher, David S. 2011. “Economic and social implications of the demographic transition.” 37:
11-33.
Dyson, Tim. 2011. “The role of the demographic transition in the process of urbanization.”
Population and Development Review 37: 34-54.
Demeny, Paul. 2011. “Population policy and the demographic transition: Performance,
prospects, and options.” Population and Development Review 37: 249-274.
Caldwell, John C. 2004. “Demographic theory: A long view.” Population and Development
Review 30: 297-316.
Lesthaeghe, Ron J. and Lisa Neidert. 2006. “The second demographic transition in the United
States: Exception or textbook example?” Population and Development Review 32: 669-698.
Bongaarts, John and Rodolfo Bulatao. 1999. “Completing the demographic transition.”
Population and Development Review 25: 515-529.
Task for the day. Go to a coffee shop or bar and talk with a friend about what you think are the most
important prerequisites for a “complete demographic transition.” Be sure that you describe your
definition of a demographic transition and that you explain which determinants you think are most
relevant: supply/demand, institutional, cultural, diffusion, etc. After you’ve covered this terrain, step
back and allow yourself to fantasize what the next major “demographic transition” will be over the next
few centuries. What will the best demographers on earth be discussing 200 years from now?
Week 6: Fertility – too high, too low, never just right
February 15th1.
Van de Kaa, D.J. 1996. “Anchored narratives: The story and findings of half a century of
research into the determinants of fertility.” Population Studies 50: 389-432.
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Espenshade, Thomas J., Juan Carlos Guzman, and Charles F. Westoff. 2003. “The surprising
global variation in replacement fertility.” Population Research and Policy Review 22: 575-583.
3.
Romaniuk, Anatole. 2011. “Persistence of higher fertility in tropical Africa: The case of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.” Population and Development Review 37(1): 1-28.
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Dommaraju, Premchand and Victor Agadjanian. 2009. “India’s North-South divide and theories
of fertility change.” Journal of Population Research 26: 249-272.
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Trinitapoli, Jenny and Sara Yeatman. 2011. “Uncertainty and fertility in a generalized AIDS
epidemic.” American Sociological Review 76: 935-954.
Suggested reading.
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Billari, Francesco C. And Hans-Peter Kohler. 2004. “Patterns of low and lowest-low fertility in
Europe.” Population Studies 58: 161-176.
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Morgan, S. Philip and Miles G. Taylor. 2006. “Low fertility at the turn of the twenty-first
century.” Annual Review of Sociology 32: 375-399.
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Goldstein, Joshua, Wolfgang Lutz, and Maria Rita Testa. 2003. “The emergence of subreplacement family size ideals in Europe.” Population Research and Policy Review 22: 479-496.
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Sobotka, Tomas. 2004. “Is lowest-low fertility in Europe explained by the postponement of
childbearing.” Population and Development Review 30: 195-220.
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Rindfuss, Ronald R., Karen Benjamin Guzzo, and S. Philip Morgan. 2003. “The changing
institutional context of low fertility.” Population Research and Policy Review 22: 411-438.
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Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman, and Axel Skytthe. 2005. “Partner + children = happiness?
The effects of partnerships and fertility on well-being.” Population and Development Review 31:
407-445.
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Shkolnikov, Vladimir, Evgueni M. Andreev, René Houle, and James W. Vaupel. 2007. “The
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concentration of reproduction in cohorts of women in Europe and the United States.” Population
and Development Review 33: 67-99.
Hampshire, Kate, Biell, Mwenza, and Bob Simpson. 2011. “Navigating new socio-demographic
landscapes: Using anthropological demography to understand the ‘persistence’ of high and early
fertility among British Pakistanis.” European Journal of Population 27(1).
Bloom, David E., Canning, David, Fink, Gunther, and Jocelyn E. Finlay. 2010. “The cost of low
fertility in Europe.” European Journal of Population 26(2).
Zamac, Jovan, Hallberg, Daniel, and Thomas Lindh. 2010. “Low fertility and long-run growth
in an economy with a large public sector.” European Journal of Population 26(2).
Morgan, S. Philip. 2003. “Is low fertility a twenty-first century demographic crisis?”
Demography 40: 589-603.
Billari, Francesco C., Hans-Peter Kohler, Gunnar Andersson, and Hans Lundström. 2007.
“Approaching the limit: long-term trends in late and very late fertility.” Population and
Development Review 33: 149-170.
Goldstein, Joshua R., Tomas Sobotka, and Aiva Jasilioniene. 2009. “The end of lowest-low
fertility?” Population and Development Review 35: 663-699.
Your midterm examination will be handed out in class.
Week 7: Health, disease, mortality
February 22nd1.
Omran, Abdel. 1982. “Epidemiologic transition.” Pp. 172-183. In International Encyclopedia
of Population. New York: The Free Press. In Grad Computer Lab!
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Kent, Mary and Sandra Yin. 2006. Controlling infectious diseases. PRB.
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Montgomery, Mark R. 2009. Urban poverty and health in developing countries. PRB.
4.
MacKellar, Landis. 2007. “Pandemic influenza: A review.” Population and Development
Review 33: 429-451.
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Allen, Heather and Rebecca Katz. 2010. “Demography and public health emergency
preparedness: Making the connection.” Population and Research and Policy Review 29: 527539.
Suggested readings.
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Manton, K.G. and Burton Singer. 2002. What’s the fuss about the compression of mortality?
K.G. Manton and Burton Singer. In Frank A. Trovato (Ed.) Population and society: Essential
readings. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
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Lauderdale, Diane S. 2007. “Birth outcomes for Arabic-named women in California before and
after September 11.” Demography 43: 185-201.
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Haas, Steven A. 2007. “The long-term effects of poor childhood health: An assessment and
application of retrospective reports.” Demography 44: 113-135.
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Soares, Rodrigo. 2007. “On the determinants of mortality reductions in the developing world.”
Population and Development Review 33: 247-287.
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Palloni, Alberto and Elizabeth Arias. 2004. “Paradox lost: Explaining the Hispanic adult
mortality advantage.” Demography 41: 385-415.
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Goesling, Brian and Glenn Firebaugh. 2004. “The trend in international health inequality.”
Population and Development Review 30: 131-146.
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Rogers, Richard G., Robert A. Hummer, Patrick M. Kreuger, and Fred C. Pampel. 2005.
“Mortality attributable to cigarette smoking in the United States.” Population and Development
Review 31: 259-292.
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Neumayer, Eric and Thomas Plümper. 2007. “The gendered nature of natural disasters: The
impact of catastrophic events on the gender gap in life expectancy, 1981-2002. Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 97: 551-566.
Plümper, Thomas and Eric Neumayer. 2006. “The unequal burden of war: The effect of armed
conflict on the gender gap in life expectancy.” International Organization 60: 723-754.
Teitler, Julien O. and Nancy E. Reichman. 2008. “Mental illness as a barrier to marriage among
unmarried mothers.” Journal of Marriage and Family 70: 772-782.
Baker, David P., Leon, Juan, Smith Greenway, Emily G., Collins, John, and Marcella Movit.
2011. “The education effect on population health: A reassessment.” Population and Development
Review 37(2): 307-332.
Steingraber, Sandra. 2001. Having Faith: An ecologist’s journey to motherhood. Cambridge,
Mass: Perseus Publications.
Argeseanu Cunningham, Solveig and Irma T. Elo. 2010. “Prenatal development in rural South
Africa: Relationship between birth weight and access to fathers and grandparents.” Population
Studies 64: 229-246.
Hale, Lauren, DaVanzo, Julie, Razzaque, Abdur and Mizanur Rahman. 2009. “Which factors
explain the decline in infant and child mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh?” Journal of Population
Research 26: 3-20.
Olshansky, S. Jay and A. Brian Ault. 2002. The fourth stage of the epidemiologic transition: The
age of delayed degenerative diseases. In Frank A. Trovato (Ed.) Population and society:
Essential readings. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
Wilkinson, Richard. 2002. The epidemiologic transition: From material scarcity to social
disadvantage? In Frank A. Trovato (Ed.) Population and society: Essential readings. Don
Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
Kuhn, Randall. 2010. “Routes to low mortality in poor countries revisited.” Population and
Development Review 36: 655-692.
Case, Anne and Christina Paxson. 2009. “The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services
in Africa: Evidence from demographic and health surveys.” Demography 4?: 675-697.
Patterson, Olivia, Weil, Frederick, and Kavita Patel. 2010. “The role of community in disaster
response: Conceptual models.” Population Research and Policy Review 29: 127-141.
Cassels, Susan and Burton H. Singer. 2010. “Population decline induced by Gonorrhoea and
Tuberculosis transmission: Micronesia, during the Japanese occupation, 1919-45.” Journal of
Population Research 27: 293-313.
Madhavan, Sangeetha, Schatz, Enid, and Benjamin Clark. 2009. “Effect of HIV/AIDS and
related mortality on household dependency ratios in rural South Africa, 2000-2005.” Population
Studies 63: 37-51.
White, Kevin M. And Samuel H. Preston. 1996. “How many Americans are alive because of
twentieth-century improvements in mortality?” Population and Development Review 22: 415429.
McNeill, William H. 1987. “Transoceanic exchanges of disease.” In Scott W. Menard and
Elizabeth W. Moen (Eds.) Perspectives on population: An introduction to concepts and issues.
New York: Oxford.
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Podcasts.
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Rescuing the ‘bottom billionth’ through Millenium Development Goal control of the neglected
diseases. PRB. 12min.
U.S. adult mortality and health trends in an international context. PRB. 13min.
Videocasts.
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Mission impossible. New York Times.
TB patients change under lockdown in South Africa. New York Times.
Diseases on the Brink. New York Times.
Larry Brilliant. Wants to stop pandemics. TED. 25min.
Richard Wilkinson. How economic inequality harms societies. TED. 17min.
Your take-home midterm examination is due in class.
Week 8: HIV/AIDS
February 29th1.
Lamptey, Peter, Jami L. Johnson, Marya Khan. 2006. The global challenge of HIV and AIDS.
PRB.
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Tavory, Iddo and Ann Swidler. 2009. “Condom semiotics: Meaning and condom use in rural
Malawi.” American Sociological Review 74: 171-189.
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Knodel, John, Zachary Zimmer, Kiry Sovan Kim, and Sina. Puch. 2007. “The effect on elderly
parents in Cambodia of losing an adult child to AIDS.” Population and Development Review 33:
479-500.
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Evans, David K. and Edward Miguel. 2007. “Orphans and schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal
Analysis.” Demography 44: 35-57.
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Gregson, Simon et al. 2011. “Social capital and women’s reduced vulnerability to HIV infection
in rural Zimbabwe.” Population and Development Review 37(2): 333-359.
Suggested readings.
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Reiniers, Georges. 2008. “Marital strategies for regulating exposure to HIV.” Demography 45:
417-438.
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Neumayer, Eric. 2004. “HIV/AIDS and cross-national convergence in life expectancy.”
Population and Development Review 30: 727-742.
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Watkins, Susan Cotts. 2004. “Navigating the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi.” Population and
Development Review 30: 673-705.
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Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan C. Watkins. 2007. “Social networks and
HIV/AIDS risk perceptions.” Demography 44: 1-33.
Podcasts.
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HIV/AIDS and older persons in developing countries. PRB. 14min.
Videocasts.
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The battle against AIDS is failing. New York Times.
Hans Rosling. HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals. TED. 10min.
Emily Oster. Flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa. TED. 15min.
Jacqueline Novogratz. Invests in Africa’s own solutions. TED. 12min.
Amy Lockwood. Selling condoms in the Congo. TED. 4min.
Week 9: Migration/Urbanization
March 14th1.
Roudi-Fahimi, Farzaneh and Mary Mederios Kent. 2007. Challenges and opportunities – The
population of the Middle East and North Africa. PRB.
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Coleman, David. 2006. “Immigration and ethnic change in low-fertility countries: A third
demographic transition.” Population and Development Review 32: 401-446.
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Martin, Philip and Gottfried Zürcher. 2008. Managing migration: The global challenge. PRB.
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Fargues, Philippe. 2011. “International Migration and the Demographic Transition: A TwoWay Interaction.” International Migration Review 45(3): 588-614.
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Foroutan, Yaghoob. 2009. “Migration and Gender Roles: The Typical Work Pattern of MENA
Women.” International Migration Review 43(4): 974-992.
Warner, Koko. 2011. “Environmental change and migration: Methodological considerations
from a ground-breaking global survey.” Population and Environment 33: 3-27.
Luke, Nancy. 2010. “Migrants’ competing commitments: Sexual partners in urban Africa and
remittances to the rural origin.” American Journal of Sociology 115: 1435-1479.
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Suggested readings.
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Krivo, Lauren J., Ruth D. Peterson, and Danielle C. Kuhl. 2009. “Segregation, racial structure,
and neighborhood violent crime.” American Journal of Sociology 6: 1765-1802.
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Massey, Douglas S. 1996. “The age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the
twenty-first century.” Demography 33: 395-412.
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Balistreri, Kelly Stamper. 2010. “Welfare and the children of immigrants: Transmission of
dependence or investment in the future.” Population Research and Policy Review 29: 715-743.
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Muñoz, Rafael and José-Igancio Antón. 2011. “From rags to riches? Immigration and poverty in
Spain.” Population Research and Policy Review 30: 661-676.
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Massey, Douglas S., Axinn, William G. and Dirgha J. Ghimine. 2010. “Environmental change
and out-migration: Evidence from Nepal.” Population and Environment 32: 109-136.
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Radel, Claudia, Schmook, Birgit, and Susannah McCandless. 2010. “Environment, transnational
labor migration, and gender; Case studies from Southern Yucatán, Mexico, and Vermont,
U.S.A.” Population and Environment 32: 177-197.
Podcasts.
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U.S. immigrant children. PRB. 9min.
Western Union spins international financial web. NPR. 2006.
Blogs.
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Debunking global migration myths. NPR. 2007.
Week 10: Measurement issues
March 21st1.
Martin, Elizabeth. 2007. “Strength of attachment: Survey coverage of people with tenuous ties
to residence.” Demography 44: 427-440.
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Smith, James P. 2009. “Reconstructing childhood health histories.” Demography 46: 387-403.
3.
Andersson, Gunnar, Turid Noack, Ane Seierstad, and Harald Weedon-Fekjær. 2006. “The
demographics of same-sex marriages in Norway and Sweden.” Demography 43: 79-98.
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Axinn, William G., Link, Cynthia F. and Robert M. Groves. 2011. “Responsive survey design,
demographic data collection, and models of demographic behavior.” Demography 48: 11271149.
Randall, Sara, Coast, Ernestina, and Tiziana Leone. 2011. “Cultural constructions of the concept
of household in sample surveys.” Population Studies 65: 217-229.
Suggested readings.
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Hayford, Sarah R. and S. Philip Morgan. 2008. “The quality of retrospective data on
cohabitation.” Demography 45: 129-141.
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Harris, M., J.G. Consorte, and B. Byrne. 1993. “Who are the Whites? Imposed Census
categories and the racial demography of Brazil.” Social Forces 72: 451-463.
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Watkins, Susan Cotts. 1993. “If all we knew about women was what we read in Demography,
what would we know?” Demography 30: 551-577.
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White, Lynn. 1998. “Who’s counting? Quasi-facts and stepfamilies in reports of numbers of
siblings.” Journal of Marriage and Family 60: 725-733.
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Brown, Susan L. and Wendy D. Manning. 2009. “Family boundary ambiguity and the
measurement of family structure: The significance of cohabitation.” Demography 46: 85-101.
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Passell, J.S. 1997. “The growing American Indian population, 1960-1990: Beyond
demography.” Population Research and Policy Review 16: 11-31.
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Teitler, Julien O., Nancy E. Reichman and Heather Koball. 2006. “Contemporaneous vs.
retrospective reports of cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey.” Journal of Marriage and
Family 68: 469-477.
Week 11: Population youth and aging
March 28th1.
Kinsella, Kevin and David R. Phillips. 2005. Global aging: The challenge of success. PRB.
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Sanderson, Warren and Sergei Scherbov. 2008. Rethinking age and aging. PRB.
3.
Knodel, John and Mary Beth Ofstedal. 2003. “Gender and aging in the developing world: Where
are the men?” Population and Development Review 29: 677-698.
4.
Schoeni, Robert F. and Mary Beth Ofstedal. 2010. “Key themes in research on the demography
of aging.” Demography 47: S5-S15.
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Kapteyn, Arie. 2010. “What can we learn from (and about) global aging?” Demography 47:
S191-S209.
Suggested readings.
6.
Manton, Kenneth G., XiLiang Gu, and Vicki L. Lamb. 2006. “Long-term trends in life
expectancy and active life expectancy in the United States.” Population and Development
Review 32: 81-105.
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Bongaarts, John. 2004. “Population aging and the rising cost of public pensions.” Population
and Development Review 30: 1-23.
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Mutchler, Jan E. And Lindsey A Baker. 2004. “A demographic examination of grandparent
caregivers in the Census 2000 supplemental survey.” Population Research and Policy Review
23: 359-377.
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Bongaarts, John. 2006. “How long will we live?” Population and Development Review 32: 605628.
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Crimmins, Eileen M., Hayward, Mark D., Hagedorn, Aaron, Saito, Yasuhiko, and Nicolas
Brouard. 2009. “Change in disability-free life expectancy for Americans 70 years old and
older.” Demography 46: 627-646.
12.
Obare, Francis and Harriet Birungi. 2010. “The limited effect of knowing they are HIV-positive
on the sexual and reproductive experiences and intentions of infected adolescents in Uganda.”
Population Studies 64: 97-104.
Thomas, Kevin J.A. 2010. “Family contexts and schooling disruption among orphans in postgenocide Rwanda.” Population Research and Policy Review 29: 819-842.
Li, Qiang, Reuser, Mieke, Kraus, Cornelia, and Juha Alho. 2009. “Ageing of a giant: A
Stochastic population forecast for China, 2006-2060.” Journal of Population Research 26: 2150.
Clark, Robert C., Ogawa, Naohiro, Kondo, Makoto, and Rikiya Matsukura. 2010. “Population
decline, labor force stability, and the future of the Japanese economy.” European Journal of
Population 26(2).
Wise, David A. 2010. “Facilitating longer working lives: International evidence on why and
how.” Demography 47: S131-S149.
Xu, Hongwei, Luke, Nancy, and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu. 2010. “Concurrent sexual partnerships
among youth in urban Kenya: Prevalence and partnership effects.” Population Studies 64: 247261.
Carlson, Elwood. 2009. 20th-Century U.S. generations. PRB.
Bongaarts, John. 2009. “Trends in senescent life expectancy.” Population Studies 63: 203-213.
Jacobsen, Linda A., Kent, Mary, Lee, Marlene, and Mark Mather. 2011. America’s aging
population. PRB.
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Podcasts.
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How has the recession affected older Americans. PRB. 15min.
Investing in youth for national development. PRB. 9min.
Youth bulges, urbanization, and conflict. PRB. 10min.
Atul Gawande. Live from the New York Public Library. 1:46min.
Week 12: China, the awakened global giant!!
April 4th 1.
Riley, Nancy E. 2004. China’s population. PRB.
2.
Chen, Feinian. 2005. “Residential patterns of parents and their married children in contemporary
China: A life course approach.” Population Research and Policy Review 24: 125-148.
3.
Huang, Cheng and Irma T. Elo. 2009. “Mortality of the oldest old Chinese: The role of earlylife nutritional status, socio-economic conditions, and sibling sex-composition.” Population
Studies 63: 7-20.
4.
Attané, Isabelle. 2009. “The determinants of discrimination against daughters in China:
Evidence from a provincial-level analysis.” Population Studies 63: 87-102.
5.
Cai, Yung. 2010. “China’s below-replacement fertility: Government policy or socioeconomic
development.” Population and Development Review 36: 419-440.
Suggested readings.
6.
Johnson, Kay. 1996. “The politics of the revival of infant abandonment in China, with special
reference to Hunan.” Population and Development Review 22: 77-98.
7.
Greenhalgh, Susan. 1994. “Controlling births and bodies in Village China.” American
Ethnologist 21: 3-30.
8.
McNicoll, Geoffrey. 2006. “Policy lessons of the East Asian demographic transition.”
Population and Development Review 32: 1-25.
9.
Zhao, Zhongwei. 2006. “Income inequality, unequal health care access, and mortality in China.”
Population and Development Review 32: 461-483.
10.
Zhang, Weiguo and Guiping Liu. 2007. “Childlessness, psychological well-being, and life
satisfaction among the elderly in China.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 22: 185-203.
Liu, Guiping and Zhen Zhang. 2004. “Sociodemographic differentials of the self-rated health of
the oldest-old Chinese.” Population Research and Policy Review 23: 117-133.
Attané, Isabelle. 2006. “The demographic impact of a female deficit in China, 2000-2050.”
Population and Development Review 32: 755-770.
Retherford, Robert D., Minja Kim Choe, Jiajian Chen, Li Xiru, Cui Hongyan. 2005. “How far
has fertility in China really declined?” Population and Development Review 31: 57-84.
Chen, Jiajian, Retherford, Robert D., choe, Minja Kim, Xiru, Li, and Cul Hongyan. 2010.
“Effects of population policy and economic reform on the trend in fertility in Guangdong
Province, China, 1975-2005.” Population Studies 64: 43-60.
Zhang, Li. 2011. “Farm dependence and population change in China.” Population Research and
Policy Review 30: 751-779.
Chen, Feinian, Yang, Yang and Guangya Lu. 2010. “Social change and socioeconomic
disparities in health over the life course in China: A cohort analysis.” American Sociological
Review 75: 126-150.
Goodkind, Daniel M. 2004. “China’s missing children: The 2000 census underreporting
surprise.” Population studies 58: 281-295.
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Videocasts.
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China’s great divide. 2006. New York Times.
India measures itself against a China that doesn’t notice. New York Times.
India rising, off the grid. New York Times.
China India buy buy. New York Times.
China and India: The race is on. New York Times.
Choking on growth. The New York Times.
Hans Rosling. Asia’s rise – how and when. TED. 15min.
Week 13: Population, environment, development
April 11th1.
Elliott, James R. And Jeremy Pais. 2006. “Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social differences
in human responses to disaster.” Social Science Research 35: 295-321.
2.
Elder, Keith, Sudha Xirasagar, Nancy Miller, Shelly Ann Bowen, Saundra Glover, and Crystal
Piper. 2007. “African Americans’ decisions not to evacuate New Orleans before Hurricane
Katrina: A qualitative study.” American Journal of Public Health 97: S124-S129.
3.
Pfefferbaum, Betty, J. Brian Houston, Karen Fraser Wyche, and Richard L. Van Horn. 2008.
“Children displaced by Hurricane Katrina: A focus group study.” Journal of loss and trauma 13:
303-318.
4.
Henderson, Tammy L., Maria Sirois, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, Christopher Airries, and David A.
Swanson. 2009. “After a disaster: Lessons in survey methodology from Hurricane Katrina.”
Population Research and Policy Review 28: 67-92.
5.
Ausbrooks, Carrie Y. Barron, Edith J. Barrett and Maria Martinez-Cosio. 2009. “Ethical issues
in disaster research: lessons from Hurricane Katrina.” Population Research and Policy Review
28: 93-106.
6.
Kirk, David S. 2009. “A natural experiment on residential change and recidivism: Lessons from
Hurricane Katrina.” American Sociological Review 74: 484-505.
7.
Frey, William H. and Audrey Singer. 2010. “Demographic dynamics and natural disasters:
Learning from Katrina and Rita.” Population and Environment 31: 1-2.
Suggested readings.
8.
De-Souza, Roger-Mark, John S. Williams, Frederick Meyerson. 2003. Critical links:
Population, health and the environment. PRB.
9.
Brodie, Mollyann, Erin Weltzien, Drew Altman, Robert J. Blendon, and John M. Benson. 2006.
“Experiences of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston shelters: Implications for future
planning.” American Journal of Public Health 96: 1402-1408.
10.
Eisenman, David P., Kristina M. Cordasco, Steve Asche, Joya F. Golden, and Deboarh Gilk.
2007. “Disaster planning and risk communication with vulnerable communities: Lessons from
Hurricane Katrina.” American Journal of Public Health 97: S109-S115.
11.
Rodríguez, Havidán, Joseph Trainor, and Enrico L. Quarantelli. 2006. “Rising to the challenges
of a catastrophe: The emergent and prosocial behavior following Hurricane Katrina.” AAPSS
604: 82-101.
12.
Suter, Larry, Thomas Birkland, and Raima Larter. 2009. “Disaster research and social network
analysis: Examples of the scientific understanding of human dynamics at the National Science
Foundation.” Population Research and Policy Review 28: 1-10.
13.
Mills, Mary Alice, Donald Edmondson, and Crystal L. Park. 2007. “Trauma and stress response
among Hurricane Katrina evacuees.” American Journal of Public Health 97: S116-S123.
14.
Friedman, Thomas L. 2007. “The power of green.” New York Times Sunday Magazine.
15.
Gertner, Jon. 2007. “The future is drying up.” New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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Eggers, Dave. 2009. Zeitoun. New York: McSweeney’s Books.
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McFarland Taylor, Sarah. 2007. Green Sisters: A spiritual ecology. Cambridge, Mass:
Harvard University Press.
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Guttmann, Myron P. and Vincenzo Field. 2010. “Katrina in historical context: Environment and
migration in the U.S.” Population and Environment 31: 3-19.
19.
Hooks, Gregory and Chad L. Smith. 2004. “The treadmill of destruction: National sacrifice areas
and Native Americans.” American Sociological Review 69: 558-575.
20.
Hunter, Lori M., Reid-Kresko, John, And Thomas W. Dickinson. 2011. “Environmental change,
risky sexual behavior, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic: Linkages through livelihoods in rural
Haiti.” Population Research and Policy Review 30: 729-750.
21.
Jiang, Leiwen and Karen Hardee. 2011. “How do recent population trends matter to climate
change?” Population Research and Policy Review 30: 287-312.
22.
Grant, Don, Nell Trautner, Mary, Downey, Liam, and Lisa Thiebaud. 2010. “Bringing the
polluters back in: Environmental inequality and the organization of chemical production.”
American Sociological Review 75: 479-504.
23.
Fussell, Elizabeth, Sastry, Narayan, and Mark VanLandingham. 2010. “Race, socioeconomic
status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Population and
Environment 31: 20-42.
24.
Groen, Jeffrey and Anne E. Polivka. 2010. “Going home after Hurricane Katrina: Determinants
of return migration and changes in affected areas.” Demography 47: 821-844.
Podcasts.
 Social vulnerability and resilience to natural disasters. PRB. 10min.
 In Cairo slums, the poor spark environmental change. NPR: Climate Connections. 14min.
 Young Indians abroad return to help better country. NPR: Climate Connections. 7min.
 Chinese family takes Carbon challenge. NPR: Climate Connections: 7min.
 Tough work lies ahead in climate talks. NPR. 4min.
 Bangladesh: A present-day water world.
 Kenya-Somalia tension rises amidst drought.
Videocasts.
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Water woes in India. New York Times.
China’s Yellow River.
Lead poisoning in Mexico.
James Balog. Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss. TED. 13min.
Peter Ward. Earth’s mass extinctions. TED. 19min.
Week 14: Gender and demography
April 18th1.
Waller, Maureen R. and Raymond Swisher. 2006. “Fathers’ risk factors in Fragile Families:
Implications for ‘healthy’ relationships and father involvement.” Social Problems 53: 392-420.
2.
Guzzo, Karen Benjamin and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. 2007. “Multipartnered fertility among
American men.” Demography 44: 583-601.
3.
Teachman, Jay. 2007. “Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from NLSY-79.”
Demography 44: 389-404.
4.
Desai, Sonalde and Lester Andrist. 2010. “Gender scripts and age at marriage in India.”
Demography 47: 667-687.
5.
Yabiku, Scott T., Agadjanian, Victor, and Arusyak Sevoyan. 2010. “Husbands’ labour migration
and wives’ autonomy, Mozambique, 2000-2006.” Population Studies 64: 293-306.
Suggested readings.
6.
Sen, Gita and Srilatha Batliwala. 2000. “Empowering women for reproductive rights.” In
Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen (Eds.) Women’s empowerment and demographic processes:
Moving beyond Cairo. London: Oxford University Press.
7.
Koenig, Michael A., Saifuddin Ahmed, Mian Bazle Hossain, and A.B.M. Khorshed Alam
Mozumder. 2003. “Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and
community-level effects.” Demography 40: 269-288.
8.
Greene, Margaret E. and Ann E. Biddlecom. 2000. “Absent and problematic men: Demographic
accounts of male reproductive roles.” Population and Development Review 26: 81-115.
9.
Townsend, Nicholas W. 2000. “Male fertility as a lifetime of relationships: Contextualizing
men’s biological reproduction in Botswana.” In Caroline Bledsoe, Susana Lerner and Jane I.
Guyer (Eds.) Fertility and the male life cycle in the era of fertility decline. New York: Oxford
University Press.
10.
Oster, Emily. 2005. “Hepatitis B and the case of the missing women.” The Journal of Political
Economy 113: 1163-1216.
11.
Das Gupta, Monica. 2005. “Explaining Asia’s ‘missing women’: A new look at the data.”
Population and Development Review 31: 529-535.
12.
Oster, Emily. 2006. “On explaining Asia’s ‘missing women’: Comment on Das Gupta.”
Population and Development Review 32: 323-327.
13.
Das Gupta, Monica. 2006. “Cultural versus biological factors in explaining Asia’s ‘missing
women’: Response to Oster.” Population and Development Review 32: 328-332.
14.
Kaler, Amy. 2000. “‘Who has told you to do this thing?’ Toward a feminist interpretation of
contraceptive diffusion in Rhodesia, 1970-1980.” Signs: Journal of women in culture and
society. 25: 677-708.
15.
Fuchs Epstein, Cynthia. 2006. “Great divides: The cultural, cognitive, and social bases of the
global subordination of women.” American Sociological Review 72: 1-22.
16.
Sanyal, Paromita. 2009. “From credit to collective action: The role of microfinance in
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promoting women’s social capital and normative influence.” American Sociological Review 74:
529-550.
Greenhalgh, Susan. 2001. “Fresh winds in Beijing: Chinese feminists speak out on the one-child
policy and women’s lives.” Signs 26: 847.
Goffman, Alice. 2009. “On the run: Wanted men in a Philadelphia ghetto.” American
Sociological Review 74: 339-357.
Wildeman, Christopher. 2009. “Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration
of childhood disadvantage.” Demography 46: 265-280.
Podcasts.
 Commemorating International Women’s Day 2011: Interview with Nafis Sadik. PRB. 15min.
 Providing opportunities for girls through education and combatting female genital mutilation.
PRB. 9min.
 Combatting female genital mutilation. PRB. 10min.
 The fight against honor killings. PRB. 10min.
News items.
 160 million and counting. 2011. Ross Douthat. New York Times.
 A rite of torture for girls. 2011. Nicholas D. Kristoff. New York Times.
 The daughter deficit. 2009. Tina Rosenberg. The New York Times Magazine.
Note. Your take-home final will be handed out in class.
Week 15: Creative Takes on PAA Presidential Addresses
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
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April 25 Note. Your take-home final examination is due in class.
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Note. The final draft of your PAA presidential address paper is due to Dr. Sanchez, Thursday, May 3rd
between 1:15 and 3:15pm.