Human Ecology, Sociology, and Demography

摘要: In 1934, R. D. McKenzie published an essay entitled “The Field and Problems of Demography, Human Geography, Ecology” in the book, The Fields Methods Sociology, edited by L. Bernard. his essay, endeavored to show that, for purposes scientific study, human community could be viewed as demographic, geographic, or ecological, depending on orientation goals investigation. If concern was with a population aggregate, would delineated demographically. relation between its physical habitat focus analysis, defined geographically. studied symbiotic unity, described ecologically. Although McKenzie’s goal distinguish among these three different ways studying community, our purpose here is outline general manner ecological then sociological significance study demographic process migration (see Namboodiri 1988 1994 other, although not dissimilar, treatments).