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Population Theories - MD360S13

Title:	Populační teorie
Czech title:	Populační teorie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2025
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:	Czech
Level:	specialized
Note:	enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	prof. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Demographic theories and doctrines. The most remoted societies. The antique Greece and Rome (Platon and Aristoteles; lex Julia, lex Papia et Poppaea). The judaism, christianity and islam (Old Testament and New Testament, St. Augustin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Koran). The renaissance, humanism, reformation and enligthenment (Machiavelli, T. More, M. Luther, F. Voltaire, J.J. Rousseau). The mercantilism and physiocratism (G. Botero, J. Bodin, R. Cantillon, F. Quesnay). The classical political economy (A. Smith, D. Ricardo, W. Godwin, T. Malthus). Malthusianism and populationism (Saint Simon, K. Marx. B. Engels). Demographic schools in sociology, biology and social geography (A. Coste, H. Spencer, Ch. Darwin, F. Ratzel, A.Quetelet, A. Lotka, R. Kuczynski, R. Pearl, C. Gini, F. Giddings). Demographic ideas in economy and ecology (A. Marchall, E. Cannan, J.Keynes, G. Myrdal, S. Kuznetz, C. Clark, K. Davis, A. Sauvy, A. Coale). Contemporary religions and population ideas.

Last update: Kocourková Jiřina, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (28.09.2025)

Literature -

Recommended literature:

Šubrtová, A. Dějiny populačního myšlení a populačních teorií. Ústav československých a světových dějin ČSAV, Praha 1989.

Pavlík, Z., Rychtaříková, J., Šubrtová, A. Základy demografie. Academia Praha. 1986.

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: Kocourková Jiřina, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2020)

Requirements to the exam -

Links: World Population Development, Population Development of the Czech Republic.

Credit conditions: Active participation in lessons (maximum 2 absences), completion of ongoing assignments (e.g. presentations on assigned topics).

Last update: Kocourková Jiřina, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (28.09.2025)

Syllabus -

Sylabus is available in Czech.

Last update: Janáková Kuprová Barbora, RNDr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)