Family, Kinship, Demography, Migration & Cities¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Reason from demographic and household structure to labor, welfare, politics, urban systems, and intergenerational change.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Social Evidence, Interpretation & Comparative Method
• Networks, Diffusion, Brokerage & Segregation
• Markets, Prices, Firms & Property
• States, Law, Constitutions & Public Administration
• Stratification, Inequality & Social Reproduction

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• household
• kinship
• fertility
• mortality
• age structure
• migration
• diaspora
• urbanization
• housing
• neighborhood effects

Households, family systems & kinship¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Fertility, mortality & demographic transition¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Migration, diaspora & remittances¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Urbanization, housing, neighborhoods & metropolitan governance¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Demographic transition / migration / city case

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Introduction to Sociology 3e

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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