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The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
Explain the concepts of formal and social demography.
Formal demography simply refers to a mathematical study of such vital events as birth, death, migration, marriage and divorce. Social demography refers to a study of relationship between demographic phenomena on the one hand and social and economic phenomena on the other.
Changes due to shift from formal to social demography
The recent development in the field of demography have marked a shift from formal demography to social or substantive demography which takes into account not only the demographic components such as economic, social and cultures factors. The shift in demography has made these sciences more relevant and meaningful because demographic changes can be explained not only from social, economic and cultural perpectives. Social demography as a new branch of knowledge exists at the margin of demography and sociology.
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What do you understand by demography?
How many varieties the Demography has?
What are the fields of students in formal and social demographies?
What processes of counting or enumeration are used in demographic studies?
Derive the origin of demography in the past as an important field to sociology.
When did demography acquire its modern form?
During which time-period census began in India?
From which year decennial censuses are being conducted in a regular manner in India?
For what purposes the importance of demographic data is much greater?
What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
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