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- catalog abstract ""Problems associated with aggregation and classification are the underlying theme of this book. When data assembled from individuals are presented as group characteristics, this process has logical complications. Racial profiling and ethnic discrimination are obvious examples of the problem. Petersen's book analyzes in general how information from "persons" turns into statistics about specific "people."" "Demographers, sociologists, and statisticians, as well as those generally concerned with social policy, will find From Persons to People useful and courageous - the hallmark of the dean of sociological demography."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12704542.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Problems associated with aggregation and classification are the underlying theme of this book. When data assembled from individuals are presented as group characteristics, this process has logical complications. Racial profiling and ethnic discrimination are obvious examples of the problem. Petersen's book analyzes in general how information from "persons" turns into statistics about specific "people."" "Demographers, sociologists, and statisticians, as well as those generally concerned with social policy, will find From Persons to People useful and courageous - the hallmark of the dean of sociological demography."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239) and index.".
- catalog description "Population -- The Fundamentals of Demography -- Population Structure -- Population in History -- Malthus -- Marx and Early Marxists -- Lenin and His Successors -- Parents versus the State -- Efforts to Reduce the Fertility of Less Developed Countries -- A State in the Desert -- The Abortion Controversy -- Ethnicity -- Concepts of Ethnicity -- Political Influences on Ethnicity -- Europe's Nations and Subnations -- Names in Population Records -- Jews as a Race -- Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans -- Social Consequences of Religion.".
- catalog extent "250 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0765801701 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "305.8 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnicity.".
- catalog subject "HB851 .P45 2003".
- catalog subject "Population.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Population -- The Fundamentals of Demography -- Population Structure -- Population in History -- Malthus -- Marx and Early Marxists -- Lenin and His Successors -- Parents versus the State -- Efforts to Reduce the Fertility of Less Developed Countries -- A State in the Desert -- The Abortion Controversy -- Ethnicity -- Concepts of Ethnicity -- Political Influences on Ethnicity -- Europe's Nations and Subnations -- Names in Population Records -- Jews as a Race -- Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans -- Social Consequences of Religion.".
- catalog title "From persons to people : further studies in the politics of population / William Petersen.".
- catalog type "text".