KUK - LMS

Syllabus

MODULE NO / UNIT	COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE	NOTES
Course Code: M-BECOE -038 Course Name: Group - III Resources Economics) - Demography-I
1	Introduction to Demography Evolution of Demography; Meaning, subject matter and importance of Demography; Concepts of population change and Composition of population; Sources of Demographic Data: Census, Sample Surveys, Registration. Reading List • Bouge, D.J. (1971). Principles of Demography, John Wiley, New York. • Harper, S. (2018). Demography: A Very Short Introduction, Cambridge University Press. • Weinstein, J. & Pillai, V.K. (2015).Demography: The Science of Population. Rowman & Littlefield Publications.
2	Population and Demographic Transition Theories of Population: Malthusian Theory, Optimum Theory; Theories of Demographic Transition: Blacker and Boserup; Biological theories of Population; Socio-economic theories of Population – Marx & Leibenstein, Approaches of Meadows, Becker and Easterlin. Reading List • Majumdar, P.K. (2010).Fundamentals of Demography. Rawat Publication. • Mishra, J.P. (2018). Demography. Sahitya Bhawan Publication. • Novell, C. (1990), Methods and Models in Demography. Bellhaven, Washington D.C. • Pathak, K.B. & Ram, F. (2016). Techniques of Demographic Analysis. Himalaya Publishing House.
3	Trends of World Population Growth of World Population: History of Growth, Population trends since 20th century, Causes of Population Explosion; International Aspects of Population Growth and distribution; Age and Sex Structure in more developed and less developed countries; Population Pyramids. Reading List • Preston, Samuel H. (2000). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Guilford Press. • Preston, Samuel H., Heuveline, P. & Guillot, Michel (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. • Rowland, D. (2003). Demographic Methods and Concepts. OUP. • Sharma, Rajendra K. (2004). Demography and Population Problems. Atlantic Publications.
4	Fertility, Mortality and Nuptiality Fertility - Meaning & Concepts; Factors affecting Fertility; Levels and trends of fertility in developed and developing Countries; Mass Education and Fertility- Cooperation, inequality and the family (A.K. Sen). Mortality - Meaning & Concepts; Factors affecting Mortality; Life Tables - Construction & Uses; Concepts of stationary, stable and quasi stationary population. Nuptiality - Meaning and Concepts; Determinants of Nuptiality; Trends in average age of marriage; Marital Dissolution Reading List • Siegel, Jacob S. & Swanson, David A. (2004). The Methods and the materials of Demography. Second Edition, Elsevier Science.USA. • Srinivasan, K. (1998). Basic Demographic Techniques and Applications. Sage publications. • Weeks, J. (2005). Population: An introduction to concepts and issues. Wordsworth Learning. Singapore 9th edition. • Yusuf Farhat, Jo M. Martius and David A. Seans (2016). Methods of Demographic Analysis. Springer Netherlands.