Demography as an interdiscipline

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Introduction / J. Mayone Stycos -- The social sciences and the population problem / Samuel H. Preston -- The fertility transition : Europe and the Third World compared / Susan Cotts Watkins -- Migration and social structure : analytic issues and comparative perspectives in developing nations / Calvin Goldscheider -- Proximate determinants of fertility and mortality / Jane Menken -- The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries / Karen Oppenheim Mason -- Social change and the family : comparative perspectives from the West, China, and South Asia / Arland Thornton and Thomas E. Fricke -- The location of ethnic and racial groups in the United States / Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters -- Analyzing birth intervals : implications for demographic theory and data collection / Ronald R. Rindfuss, James A. Palmore, and Larry L. Bumpass.