Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Historical Demography  

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Kertzer, David I.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Population and Development Review vol. 23 no. 4 (Dec. 1997), page 839-846 .
Topik: Qualitative and Quantitative; Historical Demography; Social structure; Political power; and Economic relation.

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IN THEIR 1982 volume setting out the sources and methods of historical demography, Dennis Willigan and Katherine Lynch began by defining the basic goals of the field as twofold: "to reconstruct demographic characteris- tics of past populations and to explain the causes and consequences of these characteristics" (1982: xi). Taken in its narrowest sense, the former goal can be pursued purely by quantitative approaches (although even the most basic question of what constitutes a population is not answerable by quan- titative measures alone). The latter goal, the hallmark of modern demog- raphy, clearly cannot be pursued by quantitative approaches alone. How and why people acted as they did, how they came to change their behav- ior, and of course the impact of these changed demographic behaviors on other aspects of their lives and on larger social institutions and social inter- actions-these can only be understood in terms of a complex web of rela- tionships involving cultural norms, social structure, political power, and economic relations.

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