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Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Series Editor: Kenneth C. Land, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION ANALYSIS Shiva S. Halli and K. Vaninadha Rao CONTINUITIES IN SOCIOLOGICAL HUMAN ECOLOGY Edited by Michael Micklin and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. CURBING POPULATION GROWTH: An Insider's Perspective on the Population Movement Oscar Harkavy THE DEMOGRAPHY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE Louis G. Pol and Richard K. Thomas FORMAL DEMOGRAPHY David P. Smith HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION IN LA TIN AMERICA Susan M. De Vos HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHY AND HOUSEHOLD MODELING Edited by Evert van Imhoff, Anton Kuijsten, Pieter Hooimeijer, and Leo van Wissen MODELING MUL TIGROUP POPULATIONS Robert Schoen THE POPULATION OF MODERN CHINA Edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey A PRIMER OF POPULATION DYNAMICS Krishnan Namboodiri A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology Edited by Michael Micklin National institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Texas A&M University College Station. Texas Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC Library of Congress Catalog1ng-in-Publ1cat1on Data Continuities in sociological human ecology I edited by Michael Micklin and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. p. em. -- <The Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis) Papers presented at a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-1-4757-9843-2 ISBN 978-1-4757-9841-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-9841-8 1. Human ecology--Congresses. 2. Social ecology--Congresses. 3. Demography--Congresses. I. Micklin, Michael. II. Poston, Dudley L., 1940- III. Series. GF3.C677 1997 304.2--dc21 97-38054 CIP ISBN 978-1-4757-9843-2 © 1998 Springer Science+B usiness Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 http://www.plenum.com 10987654321 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher AMOS H. HAWLEY a valued colleague, mentor, and friend Contributors Don E. Albrecht • Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 Abdullah H. M. Al-Khalifah • Department ofSociology, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh 11515, Saudi Arabia Charles E. Bidwell • Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chi cago, Illinois 6063 7 David L. Brown • Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7801 Cynthia M. Cready • Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, Col lege Station, Texas 77843 Paul R. Eberts • Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-780 I Mark A. Fossett • Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 W Parker Frisbie • Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 Amos H. Hawley • Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3440 Thomas A. Hirsch! • Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ith aca, New York 14853-7801 vii viii CONTRIBUTORS Sean-Shong Hwang • Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Bir mingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 John D. Kasarda • Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599--3440 Michael Xinxiang Mao • Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 Michael Micklin • Biobehavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5204 Steve H. Murdock • Department of Rural Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 Dudley L. Poston, Jr. • Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, Col lege Station, Texas 77843 M. Therese Seibert • Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, 539 Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Jing Shu • Bureau of Immigration Research, South Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia David F Sly • Center for the Study of Population, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4063 Preface The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul Eberts, and Michael Hannan, all professors at the time at Cornell. With the very generous financial assistance of David Call, then the dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Poston, Eberts, and Hannan put together a two-day conference oflectures and papers by human ecologists from Cornell University and elsewhere. The conference focused on sociological human ecology and celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Amos Hawley's Human Ecology (Ronald Press 1950). Professor Hawley was the keynote speaker at the conference. Many of the authors of the chapters in this volume presented earlier versions at the Cornell conference in 1990. Cornell's Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology also contrib uted financial assistance; however, without Dean Call's very generous support, the conference would not have been possible. A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology. Many opted to do so, but others did not because of time and other kinds of commitments and constraints. Poston and Micklin then asked a few other ecologists who did not make presentations at the Cornell conference to write chapters for this book, so to fill voids and flesh out theoretical and empirical aspects of sociological human ecology not covered in the conference presen tations. In the subsequent development of this book, we are very much indebted to Eliot Werner, executive editor at Plenum, and to Kenneth Land, editor of the Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, for their advice, encouragement, and patience. We are most grateful to Katheryn ix X PREFACE Dietrich, Ph.D., who assisted us in the editing of the various chapters and preparing them for publication, and to Janet Fleitman, who prepared all the tables for publication. MICHAEL MICKLIN Bethesda, Maryland DUDLEY L. POSTON, JR. College Station, Texas
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