Population Theory - MD360E03

• Title: Population Theory
• Czech title: Populační teorie
• Guaranteed by: Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of the course:

- The student will learn about the history of population thought and his chronological ordering

- The student will be able to explain the principle of population theory and the relationship between population theory, a population climate and population policy

- The student will know the basic theoretical concepts, their origin, developments and meaning

- Student will be able to use population theory in a population research

Organization of the Course - Combined Form of Studies:

- 8 practical hours in 2 blocks + 67 hours of self-study and individual work

- The self-study will be based on reading compulsory literature. Individual work will consist in drawing two seminar works(or present two presentations).

- At the beginning of the course, seminar works will be assigned according to the topics list, which are based on the most important publications. In a seminar work/presentation, students must demonstrate that they understand the theoretical concept and they give its practical use in research.
- The term submission of the first seminar work will be a week before the first block of teaching, where all the seminar works will be evaluated and discussed
- The term submission of the second seminar work will be a week before the second block of teaching, where all the seminar works will be evaluated and discussed

Last update: Kocourková Jiřina, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (03.07.2024)

Literature

• Vilquin, E. 2005: History of Population Though. In: Caselli, G., Vallin, J. and Wunsch, G.: Demography. Analysis and Synthesis (A Treatise in Population Studies). Volume IV, Chapter 97 (Geografická knihovna PřFUK).
• Demeny, P. 2005: History of Ideas in Population since 1940. In: Caselli, G., Vallin, J. and Wunsch, G.: Demography. Analysis and Synthesis (A Treatise in Population Studies). Volume IV, Chapter 97 (Geografická knihovna PřFUK).
• Kirk, Dudley. 1996. Demographic Transition Theory. Population Studies. 50:361-387.
• Lesthaeghe Ron. 2010. The unfolding story of the second demographic transition. Population and Development Review. 36(2):211-251.
• Kohler, HP, Billari FC, Ortega JA. 2002. The emergence of lowest low fertility in Europe during the 1990s. Population and Development Review. 28(4):641-680.
• Coleman David. 2006. Immigration and ethnic change in low-fertility countries: A third demographic transition. Population and Development Review. 32(3):401-446.
• Frenk Julio, Bobadilla J. L, Stern C, Frejka T, Lozano R. 1991. Elements for a theory of the health transition. Health Transition Review. Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 21-38.
• Vallin Jacques, Meslé F. 2004. Convergences and divergences in mortality. A new approach to health transition. Demographic Research. Special collection 2. pp. 11-44.

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)

Requirements to the exam

Course requirements - Combined Form of Studies:
To meet the course, there is a minimum of 70 points of 100. The number of points will be designed as an arithmetic average of points for three activities:
- active participation at least in 1 block of teaching (0-100 points)
- seminar work from the History of population thought (0-100 points)
- seminar work from Modern population theory (0-100 points)

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)

Syllabus

I History of population thought

1. Population thought in the earliest times: Ancient Greece and Rome
2. Population thought in religious doctrines: Christianity, Jewishness and Islam
3. Population thought at the time of Renaissance, Humanism and Reformation
4. Merkantilism and physiocratism
5. Classical political economy and T. R. Malthus
6. Malthusianism, Neomalthusianism and Marxism
7. Theory of population optimum and its different definitions

II Modern population theories
1. Epidemiologic and health transition
2. Theory of the Demographic Revolution
3. Demographic revolution in third world states
4. Concept of second demographic transition
5. Third demographic transition and concept of replacement migration
6. Theoretical concepts to explain the low fertility

Organization of the Course - Combined Form of Studies:

 - 8 practical hours in 2 blocks + 67 hours of self-study and individual work

- The self-study will be based on reading compulsory literature. Individual work will consist in drawing two seminar works.

- At the beginning of the course, seminar works will be assigned according to the topics list, which are based on the most important publications. In a seminar work, students must demonstrate that they understand the theoretical concept and they give its practical use in research.
- The term submission of the first seminar work will be a week before the first block of teaching, where all the seminar works will be evaluated and discussed
- The term submission of the second seminar work will be a week before the second block of teaching, where all the seminar works will be evaluated and discussed

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)