Social Demography

6 ECTS credits
179 u studietijd

Aanbieding 2 met studiegidsnummer 1019191BER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester

1e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Inschrijvingsvereisten

Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten geslaagd zijn voor 'Statistiek I voor de sociale wetenschappen' of 'Statistiek I voor de bedrijfseconomische wetenschappen' of 'Wiskunde: calculus en lineaire algebra'. Bachelorstudenten moeten ook minstens 30 ECTS-credits op bachelorniveau behaald hebben. Studenten in een masterprogramma kunnen dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen.

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Onder samenwerkingsakkoord

Onder uitwisselingsakkoord mbt studiedelen

Faculteit

Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Sociologie

Onderwijsteam

Sylvie Gadeyne (titularis)

Onderdelen en contacturen

0 contacturen Exam
33 contacturen Lecture
20 contacturen Practical exercises
126 contacturen Self study

Inhoud

The course aims at teaching the basic principles of social demography. Social demography is a field of study concerned with the analysis of how population characteristics and socio-economic/cultural factors are related to one another. Whereas demography itself is primarily concerned with determining and measuring population characteristics and the interrelationship between demographic variables, social demographers seek to understand and explain these demographic patterns. In so doing they draw on the expertise of sociology as well as of demography.
The three main variables underlying population change are fertility, mortality, and migration, variables themselves associated with factors such as age at marriage, the proportions marrying, contraceptive use, levels and types of morbidity, rural-urban migration, and so forth. All receive attention from social demographers, who seek to understand these processes in terms of a range of standard social factors such as levels of education, the position of women, religion, and economic development...

During the course, students will be able to make a substantial judgement about:

Demography as an interdisciplinary study field
The evolution of population size at a global, European and national scale
The structure of populations and the issue of ageing
Fertility and reproduction:
- Basic concepts and indicators
- The decline of fertility
Mortality and life expectancy:
- Basic concepts and indicators
- The decline of mortality
- Social inequality in mortality
Migration:
- Basic indicators and issues

Studiemateriaal

Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Slides + Reader, S. Gadeyne, Canvas
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : Demographic Methods and Concepts, D. Rowland, Oxford University Press, 9780198752639, 2003

Bijkomende info

For more information about the concrete organisation of the course: see Canvas.

Leerresultaten

General Competencies

Students are able to define and understand the basic concepts and to aplly techniques of social demographic analysis
Students are able to calculate themselves basic demographic measures and to interprete them correctly
Students understand population issues as complex, interwoven and important phenomena, closely linked to socio-economic and cultural characteristics
Students understand the reciprocal relationship between demography and society
Students acquire insights into mutual connections between societal and demographic structures and processes
Students acquire insight into a number of topical population issues (population ageing, lost women, ultimate inequalities, population 'explosion')
Students can darw a demographic paper, describing the main characteristics of a population

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 60% van het eindcijfer

Examen Praktijk bepaalt 40% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Schriftelijk examen met een wegingsfactor 60 en aldus 60% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie Examen Praktijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Individuele paper met een wegingsfactor 40 en aldus 40% van het totale eindcijfer.

Toelichting: Opstellen en vergelijken van een demografisch profiel voor twee landen

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

• The written exam determines 60% of the final mark
• The paper determines 40% of the final mark

Students need to pass for both exam components separately (obtain a minimum of 10/20 in both components).
Only after passing both components, will the student pass this course unit. The end result will consist in this case of a weighted average of both components.
In case the student did not pass both components, the result of the unsuccessful exam part is the final result. The partial result of the exam component for which the student obtained at least 10/20, will be transferred to the second examination period. The exam component for which the student passed cannot be retaken in the second exam period.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context