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| What are the social process responsible for the emergence of demography as a discipline? |
Famines and wars. The emergence of Nation-states and the emergence of statistics as a science. Racial conflicts and first world war. Industrialization and need for labour. |
| The emergence of Nation-states and the emergence of statistics as a science. |
| 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. |
