What are the social process responsible for the emergence of demography as a discipline?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
Demography is a field that is of special importance to sociology – in fact, the
the emergence of sociology and its successful establishment as an academic
discipline owed a lot to demography. Two different processes happened to take
place at roughly the same time in Europe during the latter half of the eighteenth
century – the formation of nation-states as the principal form of political
the organisation, and the beginnings of the modern science of statistics.